1. |
YR FRIENDS + NEIGHBORS
03:56
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[1]
your friends and neighbors
have gone completely insane
tell me you've noticed
show me you care
[instrumental bar]
banning books and smashing windows
waving flags and holding stupid parades
cops and realtors, dentists, housewives
all completely, all completely insane
[2]
your friends and neighbors
have gone completely insane
coughing in faces, blowing their lids
screaming at teachers, when they don't have kids
wearing their armor, wearing their guns
they used to be harmless. it almost was fun.
now i think that they really might want to kill me
maybe not first, but eventually
[3]
your friends and neighbors
have gone completely insane
mailing bombs and shooting churches
kidnappping goddamn sitting governors
stocking up on ammunition
and storming the actual us capitol
what the hell happened?
how did we failed
how are there more of these terrorist bastards
running for congress then rotting in jail
[bridge]
and i don’t mean no disrespect but no use being circumspect
cause metaphor is cowardice and irony is masturbation
you say that i sound too distraught but i don’t think it’s overwrought
to not make it an afterthought to know all your secure locations
say no more say no more
oh no no no no no
[3]
you’re friends and neighbors
have gone completely insane
your friends and neighbors
or probably just your neighbors
look i don't know you
anymore i don't know anyone
clinging to symbols and slogans and bad jokes
just to not feel, just to not feel alone
as you can see, it's not working
your friends and neighbors
have gone completely insane
show me you've noticed
show me you care
show me you're listening
show me you're scared
is this a fever
is this a storm
will it blow over
am i getting warm
is this a nightmare
we've already had
when do we wake up
will it get bad
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2. |
The Greys
03:15
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I'm coming in
From far away
I'm coming in
From quiet space
I'm coming in
AND TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING
I'm coming in
AND TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING
You weak little people
Your false sense of ownership
Your boring ambitions
Your small minded assumptions
You think you do anything
Think you do anything?
Your godless superstitions
Your addiction to money
You think you mean anything
You think you run anything?
You think you can stand up
For one second
In the face of me?
In the face of me?
Watch me now
Cause I'm coming in...
I'm coming in
AND TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING OVER, TAKING
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3. |
Open Borders
04:49
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I been touring the train stations of the West Central Midlands
I might find myself in Cornwall ‘fore too late
This is a divorce song but it’s kind of hard to get that
I’ve been practicing putting on my meanest face
I’ve heard the the cornish hate the english and the english hate the french
And I asppire to a hate that’s half that petty and entrenched
Had lots of disappointing first that led to disapointing seconds
And i’m only standing upright cause i held on to some lessons
Like if you’re not yet drunk by noon what are you doing with your time
I’ve heard that Devonshire is warm this time of year
And i’ll have sobered up here soon and I then I’ll get back on a line line.
Until then someone find my hand another beer
And’s it true, we said, that a train must need a station
And’s it true, she said, it’s all about location
And’s it true, I said, I would stop running away from things
but there’s left out there to run away to
The international highway
From Chile to Alaska
Has just begun construction
In central Mexico
It’s locked up all to hell, there’s all these troubles with the borders
but when it’s all in order it’s the only way i’ll go
And sometimes i think, that it’s alright driving backward
sometimes i think, i should be less of a bastard
and then i wake up scared, and i seal up all the blast doors
and i confiscate the passports and i don’t let no one in
there’s an island, in the southern south atlantic full of penguins
and the only humans there are shooting nature films for england
And i’ve long held that a change in my profession could be nice enough
I’m just stuck on the question of if i can stand the ice enough
i know, in certain languages a camera is a prison
But I notice every moment that I lose to indecision
And i’m running low on ways that I can call myself the victim
So i’m framing up a system for what’s coming after that
The intercontinentional highway from fairbanks to antartica
Has just begun construction in Central Mexico
This picture here’s of Casey, she’s from boulder Colorado
And what it means to me is than you could know
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4. |
The Great Replacement
04:28
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until you came around
never knew we could fall
head over heels and still
not be done falling it
doesn't make any sense
how could the universe
even exist before
you had come calling and
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
and you, you're gonna walk, places i never knew people could walk
and you, you're gonna fly, maybe look down on me, i don't care, i'll still look up to you
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
measure and reckon, i
Look out my window, the
state of the world and it’s
all so unfortunate
ruly unfair and it
has to be rectified
the number of people who
still haven’t met you yet
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
and you, you're gonna walk, places i never once dreamed we could walk
and you, you're gonna fly, maybe look down on me, i don't care, i'll still look up to you
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
black and white, grey and gold, pink and blue, purple
now life's a stair spiraling up, not a circle
can't even walk and a thousand steps high
look out below kid cause you're gonna fly and now
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
and you, you're gonna walk, places that nobody else ever walked
and you, you're gonna fly, maybe look down on me, i don't care, i'll still look up to you
you, you're gonna see, things that i'll never see
you’re gonna see, things that I’ll never see
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5. |
Adrenochrome
05:44
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We can drive around x3
Push the pedal down x3
Push the pedal down x3
Keeping me alive x3
Right now
Push the pedal down x3
Faster, faster faster
I won't last much longer
Faster faster faster
I won't live much longer
Take you for a ride
Take you for a ride
Take you for a real wild
Drift and slide
Gotta see from the inside
Take you for a ride, x3
Oh don't be afraid x2
Oh don't be afraid x2
It's been so hard right now
I need a hit
I need a bit
I need a Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss, Little Miss
Little Miss information
Gettin impatient, sittin and waitin
Tell me i’m the x?
tell me i'm the best you ever, best you ever
Tell me x?
tell me that you never ever, never never
We can drive/roll/run around x3
It’ll be days till she gets back in town
We can run around x3
We can drive around
This could turn out nasty
Pray that they don’t catch me
Push the pedal down x3
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6. |
SHTF
06:52
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May not get out of bed this afternoon
guess we don’t all have your direction
what if i would never leave this room
would i just lose all of your affection
I don't want to be any mover, shaker
I don't even want to run in that race
I don’t want to be any difference maker
I don't think I even fit in this place
But when the shit, hits the fan
I’ll just keep on floating
When the shit, hits the fan
I’ll be king of something
Got my cans and I’ve got my knives and I,
I could stay in here forever
Be a rock, I can be an island I’d
Barely have to check the weather
I don't really care about life in china
I don't want to finish my mba
maybe i’ll bum out and move to cali
Is anybody still doing that these days
But when the shit, hits the fan
I’ll just keep on floating
When the shit, hits the fan
I’ll be king of something
If you need one / bad enough then
Anything can be disaster
I look at how my now’s / going
I can’t / even think about what’s after
All I really know how to do is panic
Habit I learned I can teach to you
I can see evil in all directions
I can see anything I want to
But when the shit hits the fan
I'll be on the ceiling
When the shit hits the fan
You won't see me cleaning, no
hey, hey, the weather comes this way
hey, hey, the winter comes this way
i don’t really care about life in china
i don’t really care about much right now
Maybe just burn it down and start over
Never liked none of it anyhow
but it’s never gonna happen (but life keeps happening)
but it’s never gonna happen (life keeps happening)
it’s never gonna happen and it’s never gonna matter
but it’s never gonna happen (but life keeps happening)
but it’s never gonna happen (life keeps happening)
it’s never gonna happen and it’s never gonna matter
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7. |
The Wall
01:00
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[wordless]
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8. |
Proof
05:22
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I honestly want to believe
that people are basically good or at least trying to be
I honestly want to believe
that we're not reduced to the worst thing that we've ever done
I honestly want to believe
that we can admit we’re wrong, that we can redeem ourselves, and grow and change and move on
but it would be nice
if there
were any proof at all.
I try to avoid TV, try to stay offline
I'm starting to see how it turns you into
a dismissive little shit that think's he's better than everyone
i'm trying to outgrow that, man i'm longer twenty-one
and looking back it doesn't seem like i had had any fun
I want to believe that something’s
twisted up all our hearts
it’s not really who we are
and that the best cure for hate
Is all getting face to face
but it would be nice
if there
were any proof at all.
And why am i angry
At people i don’t know
All day I'm angry at people I don’t know
Always so angry at people I don’t know
Who may as well not exist
I try to remind myself
That in almost every way
Things aren’t all that bad
I look at the charts and graphs
All of which show me the world is
Getting better and better and better and better...
I try to remind myself
That it’s built into your brain
To lie about the past
I try to remind myself
That every time has its fights
And ours just seem more important - because they’re not over yet and
I try hard to tell myself
That someday I’ll realize
It probably will be fine
I probably will be fine
We probably will be fine
but it would be nice...
but it would be nice...
but it would be nice...
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9. |
Blue Islands
04:47
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Let's get away again, again
Feel the heat up on our skin
Get away again, again
On a blue island
On a blue island
We can laugh and dance and sleep for weeks
Let the water meet our feet
Watch the sunset as it’s sinking deep
On a blue island
On a blue island
Let’s start over, begin, again
Forget everyone we’ve been
Get away, again, again
On a blue island
On a blue island
[solo]
Well I guess I lost track
I lose track sometimes
Gonna get back
We’ll get back somehow
We’ll get back somehow
Let’s get away again, again
On a blue island
On a blue island
On a blue island
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