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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ariel Rechtshaid
Ariel Rechtshaid
Synthesizer
Chris Baio
Chris Baio
Bass
Michelle Rearick
Michelle Rearick
Cello
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Ezra Koenig
Ezra Koenig
Producer
Chris Tomson
Chris Tomson
Producer
Ariel Rechtshaid
Ariel Rechtshaid
Producer
Chris Baio
Chris Baio
Engineer
Kyle Parker Smith
Kyle Parker Smith
Recording Engineer
Dave Schiffman
Dave Schiffman
Recording Engineer
Dave Fridmann
Dave Fridmann
Mixing Engineer
Michael Fridmann
Michael Fridmann
Assistant Engineer
Emily Lazar
Emily Lazar
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

Blacken the sky and sharpen the axe Forever cursed to live unrelaxed We make no bones, a house is not a home And a home is nowhere we can stay Dodged the draft but can't dodge the war Forever cursed to live insecure The curtain drops, a gang of Gen X cops assembles Trembling before our human nature (ooh) It wasn't built for me It's your academy But in my time, you taught me how to see Each generation makes its own apology Welcome back, my oldest friend Are you cursed to depart again? Your ways and means, eternally obscene And always looking for obscenity and hatred (ooh) It wasn't built for me It's your academy But in my time, you taught me how to see Each generation makes its own apology It wasn't built for me It's your academy But in my time, you taught me how to see Each generation makes its own apology (ooh) It's by design and consequentially Each generation makes its own apology
Writer(s): Ariel Zvi Rechtshaid, Ezra Koenig, Christopher William Tomson Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
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