Why Write a Letter That You'll Never Send
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We don't write letters anymore
There ain't the time or place
But a friend of mine wrote something like
A letter yesterday
It was smuggled through my inbox
Just this morning, 3am
More impotent than important
But let me read it now, verbatim
He says "i got that same old feeling
The one that turns the birds to brutes
The sky is like a bad dream
And the earth is in cahoots
I don't believe no one no more
I don't care what no one say's
I just wanna make the world
A much less painful place
We look fonder on the good old days
As they drift further away
But why if everyone feels so homesick
Are they always setting sail?
'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck
And each headland masks the next
I'd just as soon dive in the ocean
And forego the blood and sweat
Forego all aspirations
They just put everyone at odds
If idle hands are the devil's work
Then where's the time for God's?
And why write a letter that you'll never send away
Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
All you need to know
Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
Stay with me, wait you'll see
All you need to know
Everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark
And who cares about wars of choice lands
Where states indulge their passions
And all the new shoots just jackbootscoot
All dissent out of fashion
Like Fred Astaires at a film premier
That is all about them
It's stirring stuff, transformative
They don't care where they're sent
They're all kiss chasing childish
Dreams of privileged masculinity
'Till they're spent by shock and discharged
Home to small town and big city
The rest are the type left dying or dead
From trying to be useful
They've been handy in the years gone by
And they'll be handy in the future
And who cares for their survival
And who cares about the yanks
Who cares if they get overrun
By Chinese nukes and tanks
Who cares about the holocaust
Man we didn't learn nothing there
And all it's memory does is
Keep the History Channel on air
Who cares about the Vatican
Man everybody knows
And who's surprised they went and
Chose a nazi for a pope?
Who cares about fakes like anarchists
Man they never went to dance
Let's mambo Mogadishu
Give anarchy a chance
I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true
But all sides still try and recruit you
For shangri-las as practical
As doing the karma sutra
Why write a letter that you'll never send away
Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
All you need know
Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
Stay with me, wait you'll see
All you need to know
Everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark
And who cares if the starving millions
Know it's christmas or your birthday
Or what movie stars in Africa
Or the guy from U2 says
Or all the statesmen never telling
Lies as truth or gospel
Who cares what true or false
The truth's the world won't go to hospital
But who needs to live forever
Who needs the extra miles
We won't need bees or seed banks
In the Arctic for a while
We play the game to start again
Not to better life for all
It's the appropriate opiate
When a better way's impossible
Some honesty now wouldn't go astray
If not, then what's the use?
We're animals, we can't help doing
What all animals do
So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send
Forgive me talking straight
I'm only trying to make the world
A much less painful place
And why write a letter that you'll never send away?"
There ain't the time or place
But a friend of mine wrote something like
A letter yesterday
It was smuggled through my inbox
Just this morning, 3am
More impotent than important
But let me read it now, verbatim
He says "i got that same old feeling
The one that turns the birds to brutes
The sky is like a bad dream
And the earth is in cahoots
I don't believe no one no more
I don't care what no one say's
I just wanna make the world
A much less painful place
We look fonder on the good old days
As they drift further away
But why if everyone feels so homesick
Are they always setting sail?
'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck
And each headland masks the next
I'd just as soon dive in the ocean
And forego the blood and sweat
Forego all aspirations
They just put everyone at odds
If idle hands are the devil's work
Then where's the time for God's?
And why write a letter that you'll never send away
Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
All you need to know
Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
Stay with me, wait you'll see
All you need to know
Everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark
And who cares about wars of choice lands
Where states indulge their passions
And all the new shoots just jackbootscoot
All dissent out of fashion
Like Fred Astaires at a film premier
That is all about them
It's stirring stuff, transformative
They don't care where they're sent
They're all kiss chasing childish
Dreams of privileged masculinity
'Till they're spent by shock and discharged
Home to small town and big city
The rest are the type left dying or dead
From trying to be useful
They've been handy in the years gone by
And they'll be handy in the future
And who cares for their survival
And who cares about the yanks
Who cares if they get overrun
By Chinese nukes and tanks
Who cares about the holocaust
Man we didn't learn nothing there
And all it's memory does is
Keep the History Channel on air
Who cares about the Vatican
Man everybody knows
And who's surprised they went and
Chose a nazi for a pope?
Who cares about fakes like anarchists
Man they never went to dance
Let's mambo Mogadishu
Give anarchy a chance
I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true
But all sides still try and recruit you
For shangri-las as practical
As doing the karma sutra
Why write a letter that you'll never send away
Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
All you need know
Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
Stay with me, wait you'll see
All you need to know
Everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark
And who cares if the starving millions
Know it's christmas or your birthday
Or what movie stars in Africa
Or the guy from U2 says
Or all the statesmen never telling
Lies as truth or gospel
Who cares what true or false
The truth's the world won't go to hospital
But who needs to live forever
Who needs the extra miles
We won't need bees or seed banks
In the Arctic for a while
We play the game to start again
Not to better life for all
It's the appropriate opiate
When a better way's impossible
Some honesty now wouldn't go astray
If not, then what's the use?
We're animals, we can't help doing
What all animals do
So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send
Forgive me talking straight
I'm only trying to make the world
A much less painful place
And why write a letter that you'll never send away?"
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:32.06] We don't write letters anymore
[00:35.46] There ain't the time or place
[00:38.91] But a friend of mine wrote something like
[00:42.94] A letter yesterday
[00:47.42] It was smuggled through my inbox
[00:50.37] Just this morning, 3am
[00:54.41] More impotent than important
[00:58.15] But let me read it now, verbatim
[01:03.98] He says "i got that same old feeling
[01:08.73] The one that turns the birds to brutes
[01:13.59] The sky is like a bad dream
[01:16.96] And the earth is in cahoots
[01:21.36] I don't believe no one no more
[01:25.31] I don't care what no one say's
[01:28.98] I just wanna make the world
[01:32.17] A much less painful place
[01:37.19] We look fonder on the good old days
[01:40.51] As they drift further away
[01:45.10] But why if everyone feels so homesick
[01:48.02] Are they always setting sail?
[01:52.99] 'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck
[01:56.66] And each headland masks the next
[02:00.62] I'd just as soon dive in the ocean
[02:04.73] And forego the blood and sweat
[02:08.75] Forego all aspirations
[02:12.10] They just put everyone at odds
[02:16.41] If idle hands are the devil's work
[02:20.64] Then where's the time for God's?
[02:25.20] And why write a letter that you'll never send away
[02:38.04] Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
[02:48.12] All you need to know
[02:51.97] Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
[02:59.31] Stay with me, wait you'll see
[03:06.53] All you need to know
[03:10.22] Everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark
[03:28.33] And who cares about wars of choice lands
[03:32.51] Where states indulge their passions
[03:37.34] And all the new shoots just jackbootscoot
[03:40.18] All dissent out of fashion
[03:44.10] Like Fred Astaires at a film premier
[03:47.78] That is all about them
[03:51.38] It's stirring stuff, transformative
[03:55.55] They don't care where they're sent
[03:59.44] They're all kiss chasing childish
[04:02.49] Dreams of privileged masculinity
[04:07.24] 'Till they're spent by shock and discharged
[04:10.21] Home to small town and big city
[04:14.89] The rest are the type left dying or dead
[04:18.35] From trying to be useful
[04:22.32] They've been handy in the years gone by
[04:25.92] And they'll be handy in the future
[04:29.94] And who cares for their survival
[04:33.88] And who cares about the yanks
[04:37.75] Who cares if they get overrun
[04:41.18] By Chinese nukes and tanks
[04:45.25] Who cares about the holocaust
[04:48.24] Man we didn't learn nothing there
[04:52.30] And all it's memory does is
[04:55.29] Keep the History Channel on air
[04:59.45] Who cares about the Vatican
[05:03.04] Man everybody knows
[05:06.71] And who's surprised they went and
[05:09.14] Chose a nazi for a pope?
[05:13.66] Who cares about fakes like anarchists
[05:16.86] Man they never went to dance
[05:20.85] Let's mambo Mogadishu
[05:24.40] Give anarchy a chance
[05:27.76] I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true
[05:31.00] But all sides still try and recruit you
[05:35.19] For shangri-las as practical
[05:38.46] As doing the karma sutra
[05:43.18] Why write a letter that you'll never send away
[05:55.47] Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
[06:04.72] All you need know
[06:08.52] Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
[06:15.97] Stay with me, wait you'll see
[06:21.86] All you need to know
[06:25.44] Everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark
[06:42.46] And who cares if the starving millions
[06:45.21] Know it's christmas or your birthday
[06:49.86] Or what movie stars in Africa
[06:53.48] Or the guy from U2 says
[06:57.56] Or all the statesmen never telling
[07:01.25] Lies as truth or gospel
[07:05.23] Who cares what true or false
[07:07.64] The truth's the world won't go to hospital
[07:12.70] But who needs to live forever
[07:16.38] Who needs the extra miles
[07:20.34] We won't need bees or seed banks
[07:23.49] In the Arctic for a while
[07:27.63] We play the game to start again
[07:31.38] Not to better life for all
[07:34.91] It's the appropriate opiate
[07:39.16] When a better way's impossible
[07:43.15] Some honesty now wouldn't go astray
[07:46.86] If not, then what's the use?
[07:50.62] We're animals, we can't help doing
[07:55.05] What all animals do
[07:58.73] So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send
[08:02.62] Forgive me talking straight
[08:06.44] I'm only trying to make the world
[08:10.50] A much less painful place
[08:15.00] And why write a letter that you'll never send away?"
[08:29.11]
[00:35.46] There ain't the time or place
[00:38.91] But a friend of mine wrote something like
[00:42.94] A letter yesterday
[00:47.42] It was smuggled through my inbox
[00:50.37] Just this morning, 3am
[00:54.41] More impotent than important
[00:58.15] But let me read it now, verbatim
[01:03.98] He says "i got that same old feeling
[01:08.73] The one that turns the birds to brutes
[01:13.59] The sky is like a bad dream
[01:16.96] And the earth is in cahoots
[01:21.36] I don't believe no one no more
[01:25.31] I don't care what no one say's
[01:28.98] I just wanna make the world
[01:32.17] A much less painful place
[01:37.19] We look fonder on the good old days
[01:40.51] As they drift further away
[01:45.10] But why if everyone feels so homesick
[01:48.02] Are they always setting sail?
[01:52.99] 'Cause it's all bad news up there on deck
[01:56.66] And each headland masks the next
[02:00.62] I'd just as soon dive in the ocean
[02:04.73] And forego the blood and sweat
[02:08.75] Forego all aspirations
[02:12.10] They just put everyone at odds
[02:16.41] If idle hands are the devil's work
[02:20.64] Then where's the time for God's?
[02:25.20] And why write a letter that you'll never send away
[02:38.04] Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
[02:48.12] All you need to know
[02:51.97] Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
[02:59.31] Stay with me, wait you'll see
[03:06.53] All you need to know
[03:10.22] Everybody's hurting and their needs are always stark
[03:28.33] And who cares about wars of choice lands
[03:32.51] Where states indulge their passions
[03:37.34] And all the new shoots just jackbootscoot
[03:40.18] All dissent out of fashion
[03:44.10] Like Fred Astaires at a film premier
[03:47.78] That is all about them
[03:51.38] It's stirring stuff, transformative
[03:55.55] They don't care where they're sent
[03:59.44] They're all kiss chasing childish
[04:02.49] Dreams of privileged masculinity
[04:07.24] 'Till they're spent by shock and discharged
[04:10.21] Home to small town and big city
[04:14.89] The rest are the type left dying or dead
[04:18.35] From trying to be useful
[04:22.32] They've been handy in the years gone by
[04:25.92] And they'll be handy in the future
[04:29.94] And who cares for their survival
[04:33.88] And who cares about the yanks
[04:37.75] Who cares if they get overrun
[04:41.18] By Chinese nukes and tanks
[04:45.25] Who cares about the holocaust
[04:48.24] Man we didn't learn nothing there
[04:52.30] And all it's memory does is
[04:55.29] Keep the History Channel on air
[04:59.45] Who cares about the Vatican
[05:03.04] Man everybody knows
[05:06.71] And who's surprised they went and
[05:09.14] Chose a nazi for a pope?
[05:13.66] Who cares about fakes like anarchists
[05:16.86] Man they never went to dance
[05:20.85] Let's mambo Mogadishu
[05:24.40] Give anarchy a chance
[05:27.76] I'm saying life is cruel, you know it's true
[05:31.00] But all sides still try and recruit you
[05:35.19] For shangri-las as practical
[05:38.46] As doing the karma sutra
[05:43.18] Why write a letter that you'll never send away
[05:55.47] Why won't you stay with me, wait and see
[06:04.72] All you need know
[06:08.52] Nobody's perfect and their needs are always stark
[06:15.97] Stay with me, wait you'll see
[06:21.86] All you need to know
[06:25.44] Everybody skirts the fact their needs are always stark
[06:42.46] And who cares if the starving millions
[06:45.21] Know it's christmas or your birthday
[06:49.86] Or what movie stars in Africa
[06:53.48] Or the guy from U2 says
[06:57.56] Or all the statesmen never telling
[07:01.25] Lies as truth or gospel
[07:05.23] Who cares what true or false
[07:07.64] The truth's the world won't go to hospital
[07:12.70] But who needs to live forever
[07:16.38] Who needs the extra miles
[07:20.34] We won't need bees or seed banks
[07:23.49] In the Arctic for a while
[07:27.63] We play the game to start again
[07:31.38] Not to better life for all
[07:34.91] It's the appropriate opiate
[07:39.16] When a better way's impossible
[07:43.15] Some honesty now wouldn't go astray
[07:46.86] If not, then what's the use?
[07:50.62] We're animals, we can't help doing
[07:55.05] What all animals do
[07:58.73] So goodbye my friend, i'm hitting send
[08:02.62] Forgive me talking straight
[08:06.44] I'm only trying to make the world
[08:10.50] A much less painful place
[08:15.00] And why write a letter that you'll never send away?"
[08:29.11]