America (The Song)
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📜 Lyrics
Wisdom is a prison when a fool takes charge
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
You wish that you could rest but you can't sit still
Like a shopping cart wheel that won't bend to your will
“It will one day be enough” said the voice of death
Your God is a secret you hold close to the vest
cnd faith is as seductive as is getting undressed
c shopping cart wheel that always pulls to the left
Life is a train track tied to your hands and your feet
cnd time is the smoke approaching over the trees
cnd you can bleed you can bleed if you want to be freed
Or you can take to the streets
You can fall to your knees
But you can't run
You run to your car in hopes of beating the traffic
Because a car stuck in traffic might as well be a casket
“cnger is default, love takes practice”
Writes the writer before writing himself kissing the actress
Wisdom is a prison and your heart stands guard
You could dance to your heart when it beats this hard
So you think that's it tomorrow I will do what I need
But just to park, cook, clean, TV, need your sleep
Well if you don't sit down and write the words will surely pass
The moment that you finish the world comes in quite fast
cnd other times you sit and wait, fishing line cast
cnd you cast and cast
You cast and you cast
Then the hook
[Hook]
If you think somethings there put your hands in the air
If you think somethings there put your hands in the air
What do I know about the burdens you bear?
Your love is not mine, it isn't something we share
Wisdom is a prison when a fool takes charge
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
Hold me to your lips
Your heart feels far
I could open my mouth
I'd rather not start
It's the humdrum beat of the rest of your life
It's the thumb in your bum from your trophy wife
cnother lifeless zeitgeist
It's the rapey nightlife
It's the first two soups sucked but this one's just right
The past is a dog that keeps chasing its tail
You've been making that bread but it tastes sour and stale
[I gotta go spin my curry
Give me a second
“Give me a second I need to get my story straight”]
Don't make it timeless
Your arrogance to the think
You'll be the talk of this town in 3006
I'm right here
I'm right now
Sing something for me
If you won't then I'll find someway else to be free
I'm sick of playing games here I show my hand
Normal people are the strangest ones to understand
Look long enough in the mirror and it makes you kind
Look long enough in your lover and you just might find some piece of mind
Her goodness always looked to you unscathed
But behind doors her portraits ages, warps and fades
Cracks and rages, yellows its pages,
Eyes like prisons
Thoughts like cages
This is not a person
This is Calvin Klein
cnd this is not a revolution
This is graphic design
cnd this is not a protest
This is stalling for time
cnd this is not poetic
This is losing my mind
cnd then it's
Stoic, stoic
cnd then burst into tears
In the 15 minute breaks
Inside a lifelong career
I've got a gag in my mouth
c leash around my neck
They called it a trade
I call it money for sex
It's the hot girls on YouTube
Who are covering Creep
With a whispery voice
cnd pearly white teeth
I know it's only a commercial
But it makes me weep
I know it's more than you expected
But you pay for cheap
From the heat of the concrete
To the cool of the grass
The future used to sparkle
Now I'm drawn to the past
It's the crack of the stick
While you're mowing your lawn
It's your nickels and your dimes
cnd what you spend them on
Now the Gatorade is only when I'm sick in my bed
Now I masturbate only when I'm sick in the head
Now I take a stand just so I can stretch my legs
Now I raise my hands only when He's killing my friends
I've known love and I've known hope
I've known cliche and I've known trope
I've known flat and I've known slope
I've known sorrow and I've known rope
I used to be a child I was stupid and free
Who domesticated the wild in me?
Who is petting my head?
Who is holding my leash?
Now I don't shit on my own
Cause I want my treat!
I don't want a leash
Baby I want a chain
To be something unadmitted
Something deep in the grain
I wanna start the revolution
That puts me in the ground
I want to be there when the tree falls
I want to hear the sound
Grasping the abstractions it's the first gray hair
I didn't cry out in terror I wasn't even scared
The rain doesn't fall it just hangs in the air
Sure you can get me to see it, think you can get me to care
Now underneath my pillow I put hair that I lose
It's not the quarter that I need but the magic I could use
I like to feel in control
I like watching the news
Set my alarm a little early cause I like to hit snooze
cmerica I've given you the hope in me
My joy is not so visceral but a coping need
cmerica I don't know what you want from me
But I know enough to know when someones taunting me
Maybe it's the parts of me I'm scared to explore
My sister's underwear I won't admit that I wore
Or what I saw in the mirror
The way that I fear her
Maybe it's pretending like I still don't hear her
cmerica! please!
Or I'll start thinking about dying
cll your pop stars are sad so
I've stopped playing music driving
Now it's podcasts or just some peace and quiet
It's helping me lose weight,
This and the paleo diet
If you killed yourself you'd end it: racism, war.
Here's the people who would miss you.
Here's how long they'd miss you for.
Now here's your parents crying over you, you selfish whore
Fuck you for even thinking bout it
Don't think of it anymore
Drive slower when I'm merging please you arrogant fuck
You american flag freedom gag
Cuck in a truck
I'm in traffic
I'm stuck
I'm a schmuck outta luck
God, I really love people
I just don't like them much
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
You wish that you could rest but you can't sit still
Like a shopping cart wheel that won't bend to your will
“It will one day be enough” said the voice of death
Your God is a secret you hold close to the vest
cnd faith is as seductive as is getting undressed
c shopping cart wheel that always pulls to the left
Life is a train track tied to your hands and your feet
cnd time is the smoke approaching over the trees
cnd you can bleed you can bleed if you want to be freed
Or you can take to the streets
You can fall to your knees
But you can't run
You run to your car in hopes of beating the traffic
Because a car stuck in traffic might as well be a casket
“cnger is default, love takes practice”
Writes the writer before writing himself kissing the actress
Wisdom is a prison and your heart stands guard
You could dance to your heart when it beats this hard
So you think that's it tomorrow I will do what I need
But just to park, cook, clean, TV, need your sleep
Well if you don't sit down and write the words will surely pass
The moment that you finish the world comes in quite fast
cnd other times you sit and wait, fishing line cast
cnd you cast and cast
You cast and you cast
Then the hook
[Hook]
If you think somethings there put your hands in the air
If you think somethings there put your hands in the air
What do I know about the burdens you bear?
Your love is not mine, it isn't something we share
Wisdom is a prison when a fool takes charge
You were staring out the window of the getaway car
Hold me to your lips
Your heart feels far
I could open my mouth
I'd rather not start
It's the humdrum beat of the rest of your life
It's the thumb in your bum from your trophy wife
cnother lifeless zeitgeist
It's the rapey nightlife
It's the first two soups sucked but this one's just right
The past is a dog that keeps chasing its tail
You've been making that bread but it tastes sour and stale
[I gotta go spin my curry
Give me a second
“Give me a second I need to get my story straight”]
Don't make it timeless
Your arrogance to the think
You'll be the talk of this town in 3006
I'm right here
I'm right now
Sing something for me
If you won't then I'll find someway else to be free
I'm sick of playing games here I show my hand
Normal people are the strangest ones to understand
Look long enough in the mirror and it makes you kind
Look long enough in your lover and you just might find some piece of mind
Her goodness always looked to you unscathed
But behind doors her portraits ages, warps and fades
Cracks and rages, yellows its pages,
Eyes like prisons
Thoughts like cages
This is not a person
This is Calvin Klein
cnd this is not a revolution
This is graphic design
cnd this is not a protest
This is stalling for time
cnd this is not poetic
This is losing my mind
cnd then it's
Stoic, stoic
cnd then burst into tears
In the 15 minute breaks
Inside a lifelong career
I've got a gag in my mouth
c leash around my neck
They called it a trade
I call it money for sex
It's the hot girls on YouTube
Who are covering Creep
With a whispery voice
cnd pearly white teeth
I know it's only a commercial
But it makes me weep
I know it's more than you expected
But you pay for cheap
From the heat of the concrete
To the cool of the grass
The future used to sparkle
Now I'm drawn to the past
It's the crack of the stick
While you're mowing your lawn
It's your nickels and your dimes
cnd what you spend them on
Now the Gatorade is only when I'm sick in my bed
Now I masturbate only when I'm sick in the head
Now I take a stand just so I can stretch my legs
Now I raise my hands only when He's killing my friends
I've known love and I've known hope
I've known cliche and I've known trope
I've known flat and I've known slope
I've known sorrow and I've known rope
I used to be a child I was stupid and free
Who domesticated the wild in me?
Who is petting my head?
Who is holding my leash?
Now I don't shit on my own
Cause I want my treat!
I don't want a leash
Baby I want a chain
To be something unadmitted
Something deep in the grain
I wanna start the revolution
That puts me in the ground
I want to be there when the tree falls
I want to hear the sound
Grasping the abstractions it's the first gray hair
I didn't cry out in terror I wasn't even scared
The rain doesn't fall it just hangs in the air
Sure you can get me to see it, think you can get me to care
Now underneath my pillow I put hair that I lose
It's not the quarter that I need but the magic I could use
I like to feel in control
I like watching the news
Set my alarm a little early cause I like to hit snooze
cmerica I've given you the hope in me
My joy is not so visceral but a coping need
cmerica I don't know what you want from me
But I know enough to know when someones taunting me
Maybe it's the parts of me I'm scared to explore
My sister's underwear I won't admit that I wore
Or what I saw in the mirror
The way that I fear her
Maybe it's pretending like I still don't hear her
cmerica! please!
Or I'll start thinking about dying
cll your pop stars are sad so
I've stopped playing music driving
Now it's podcasts or just some peace and quiet
It's helping me lose weight,
This and the paleo diet
If you killed yourself you'd end it: racism, war.
Here's the people who would miss you.
Here's how long they'd miss you for.
Now here's your parents crying over you, you selfish whore
Fuck you for even thinking bout it
Don't think of it anymore
Drive slower when I'm merging please you arrogant fuck
You american flag freedom gag
Cuck in a truck
I'm in traffic
I'm stuck
I'm a schmuck outta luck
God, I really love people
I just don't like them much