Andrew VanWyngarden expresses his feelings towards social networking in Flash Delirium and directly references a… Read More [Verse 1]
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Mild apprehension
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Blank dreams of the coming fun
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Distort the odds of a turnaround
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Gut screams out next to none
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So turn it on, tune it in, and stay inert
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[Verse 2]
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You say, “Ive got the backbone”
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The back way to escape the gun
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Climbing a tree with a missing limb
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And not saving anyone
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And now it hurts to stay at home and see flash
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[Chorus 1]
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The mirror balls throwing mold
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And you cant get a grip if theres nothing to hold
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You see the flash catch a white lily laugh and wilt
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And if you must smash a glass first fill it to the hilt
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[Bridge 1]
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Plants, as far as I know, are still
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Still bending towards the light
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And if we dance until the heart explodes
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It will make this place ignite
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And even if this hall collapses
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I can stand by my pillar of hope
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Its just a case of flash delirium
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[Bridge 2]
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Heres a growing culture deep inside a corpse
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Ages stuck together, takin it to the source
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Timeless desperation, pictures on a screen scream
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“Hey, people, what does it mean?”
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[Bridge 3]
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Comfort keeps us nice
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So quick to donate everything (nothing arrives)
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Die wolken drifting blinding smiles circling (einkreisen)
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And times tingling spines
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Attaching hands to floor
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The rosy-tinted flash
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[Chorus 2]
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The hot dogs getting cold
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And youll never be as good as the Rolling Stones
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Watch the birds in the airport gathering dirt
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Crowd the clean magazine chick lifting up her skirt
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[Bridge 4]
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Lines when I close my eyes and just (Why close one eye and try to)
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Aim blindly at the sun (Pledge allegiance to the sun)
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And hear love when the ghosts start singing
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(When plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone)
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Terrorizing everyone
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And geometric troops aligning
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Carried up to the burial mounds with gold
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Its a heavy time but your (My earthbound heart is heavy)
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Your rhythm makes it light (Your heartbeat keeps things light)
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And explode like a violent star keeps (With the violence forever)
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Threatening the night
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And even if this hall collapses
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I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust
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That our heads wont bust
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[Bridge 5]
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66 55 red battleships
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Forty earthlike planets
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Three holes, two tits
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One fork in its side
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Zero tears in their eyes
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[Outro]
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Sue the spiders, sink the Welsh, stab your Facebook, sell, sell, sell
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Undercooked, overdone, mass adulation not so funny
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Poisoned honey, pseudo-science, silly money, youre my honey!
