Plastic Peace

Oh the slow drift

Of looking out for you

While looking out for me

And my small misses

Make a smoky residue

That clouds every memory

Now I’m guessing

What I said after 4 beers

Is colder than I let on

But I’m positive

That all the beers plus 10 years

Can’t slow the invisible erosion

But I’ve seen behind the screen

Everything was clean

Yeah everybody lean, ain’t no country that I’ve seen

Built on a fake war with

Plastic Peace

That man he told me

If you’d only stick around

You could finally meet the child

And it hit me that missing melody

To my lonely harmony

But I softened it til it whispered tenderly

Disappearing forcefully

So I signed them papers,

Sent my money downtown

But couldn’t slow the invisible erosion

CHORUS

I met somebody

She cracked open my shell

I withdrew into devotion

So I’m done chasin’

But I’m fightin’ like hell

Running to the invisible erosion

Can’t stop that invisible erosion

I cracked that broken screen

Captured light I wouldn’t see

I wanted to be clean

I needed my sprit lean

War on war was happening

Oh the strange lure of plastic peace