Stars are made irrelevant I can barely pay the rent
Every night I read the news and go to bed confused
Watching as the scene unfolds I’m losing all control
Everything has gone to shit how do we see through it
There’s not a stratosphere far enough away from here
To get me where I need to go
Feels like I’m hovering floating up here suffering
Watching as the world explodes below
Words are so divisive I’m on autopilot
Sometimes I get so mad I can’t talk to my own dad
There is such a disconnect we are dispossessed
Everywhere around me it rings so profoundly
There’s not a stratosphere far enough away from here
To get me where I need to go
Feels like I’m hovering floating up here suffering
Watching as the world explodes below
Maybe there’s a recipe maybe we need therapy
Maybe we should stop and start again
I don’t have a fucking clue how do we keep chugging through
Blow the whole thing up and make amends
credits
from Band Together: Songs of Protest,
released March 4, 2017
Record at Squirrel Sounds Studio (aka my attic) by Guy Capecelatro III. All the sounds and whatnots by me.
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