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Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
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Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer
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Jherek Bischoff
Jherek Bischoff
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You worship the sun and you're aching for change But you keep starving your heart You used to have sisters You don't anymore You worship the sun But you keep feeding the dark And I'm out in the yard With my son and daughter And the sky is all black and I think we should start running Running from the water And everybody's yelling Yelling that they're coming But I don't see a single soul They're all so busy yelling Not one of them is hearing The hissing from the bottom of the boat I got some feelings up my sleeve I got a compass in my arm I got a needle in my heart It's gonna tell us where we are South by south west Two miles from town I can't get out I can't look down If you can hear If you're around I'm over here I'm over here I'm watching everyone I love Drowning in the sound You worship the sun But the moons in the way So get your armaments out She's always looking for trouble She's gonna get what's been coming to her She's switching the tide And we can't have that shit around The television they're blaring out the warning: That our natural state is drowning That our natural state is burning And you're trying to help And you're clicking for change And you're calling it out And you're adding your name And you're marching for peace But you're lynching the bitch That got up in your face How else they gonna to take you seriously? South by south west Two miles from town I can't get out I can't look down If you can hear If you're around I'm over here I'm over here I'm watching Everyone I love Drowning in the sound And your body is a temple But the temple is a prison And the prison's overcrowded And they know about the flooding And the body politic is getting sicker by the minute And the media's not fake It's just very Inconvenient Do you ever feel that this should be officially the end? And that you should be the one to do the ending but you can't? And do you ever feel that everyone is slowly letting go Do you ever feel that... incredibly alone? And they're saying not to panic And it's like a broken record Not like anybody know what that is And they're saying that they'll manage It's the hottest one on record And they're saying that it's just the way it is And now I can taste it coming I can taste it with my tongue And my children are so heavy But I pick them up and run And I know I'll have to swim soon When the water gets too high I'll keep on holding them above me I'll keep on holding them and crying South by south west Two miles from town I can't get out I can't look down If you can hear If you're around I'm over here I'm watching Everyone I love Everyone I love Everyone on earth Drowning in the sound You worship the sun and you're aching for change But you keep starving your heart You used to have sisters You don't anymore You worship the sun But you keep feeding the dark
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