MGMT’s label’s website described the song as
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Premonitions of a post-apocalyptic future where colonies of young… Read More [Verse 1]
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And there were future reflections
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On the face and the hands
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On a green-colored island
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On a primitive man
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It was the future reflecting
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It felt familiar but new
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A street was missing a building
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The kids had something to do
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[Chorus 1]
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There was a feeling the spirit was leaving
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Red like a marker
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So my tribe, with my knife
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Cut the heart from a lonely life
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[Verse 2]
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I saw patterns on floorboards
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Deep in the dust was a leader
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Someone was walking on floorboards
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Turning from oak into cedar
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He can assess the situation
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I wrapped a string around my finger
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Into the forest with the young ones
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I dont expect to be a winner
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[Chorus 2]
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But as long as you feel it, Im a believer
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My heart is phosphor
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Sea rolls and death tolls
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Break the surface, dont break my bones
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Off of the trail and off of your hands and
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Onto a new plan
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Is the cost to stay lost
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Forever in an empty skin, pale and thin?
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[Bridge]
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If its good, or if its fortune, I cant tell
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But pieces come together for some reason, just as well
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Their guns couldnt see us, theres a sea outside my door
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And one day Ill appreciate the rush of blood and the washed-out beat of the shore
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[Outro]
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And remember what it felt like
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To be alone
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Sitting in the sunlight
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All alone
