Ganging Up on the Sun lyrics

I look out of my bedroom window pane
every day but the view just stays the same
I was young I would run straight from this place
come back home and then start it all again

I know just what I want I know just what I need
it's a big old house and it's coming back to haunt me
we'll be all right we'll be easy
don't look back don't look back just c'mon
c'mon c'mon

As I fall asleep to black and white T.V.
Fly far way in recurring dream
each winter drains electricity
there are words to say there are songs to sing
but I can hardly speak at all

Home I'm on my way to a holiday in real time
float hold my own weight say we'll be ok
dear valentine

Now quietly peek across the street
perfectly kept perfectly neat
but it's not complete no not at all

Been the crawl of a mountain
Been a link in a chain
Been scolded for stealin'
Been told to behave

Been readin' the forecast
Somethin's coming this way
But it's takin' forever
I'm too tired to maintain that
I'm slow

Been a scratch on the surface
Been a clog in the drain
Been melodramatic
Been sleepin' for days

Been one in a million
Been a million to one
This is takin' forever

Here we are inside a novel waiting for an end
But we don't know the authors of the book
Maybe someone's writing chapters for us while we sleep
From a million miles away

Stuck without a captain or a chart
No one seems to know just who to follow anymore
Hang on Hang on
There's a twilight a nighttime and a dawn
Who knows how long
Just hang on
Hang on

Standing on a building
Im a lightning rod
And all these clouds are so familiar
Descending from the mountain tops
The gods are threatening
That I will return an honest soldier

Standing on this high rise
Like every lighting rod
And all these clouds are boiling over
Swimming in adrenaline
The sky is caving in
But I will remain the honest soldier

Bones are broken and the will is sunk
How did everything get so effed up?
Do you want to change your mind?
You can always change your mind.

You and I could quit this scene
build a town and then secede
like an Adam and an Eve
because to the dreamers go the dreams
but the leaders have the lead
It's a frightening, frightening thing.

Born to the land of opportunity
of manifest destiny

I built a time machine
I'm going to see the homecoming queen
Take her to the Christmas dance
Maybe now I'll get in her pants
Whatever

Back with my high school friends
Meeting where the train tracks end
Passing round a skinny joint
Rolling up to Lookout Point

I want to pull it apart and put it back together
I want to relive all my adolescent dreams
Inspired by true events on movie screens

Tonight
Where do we go from here?
The road through Ruby Falls has reached the end
And now we're digging in the sand
They're promising that help is on the way

Love, confession number one
Impossible and sorry
And judge, can you look the other way?
Some things are best unsaid

And now where can we go from here
When all the morning birds have gone away
Two wrongs won't navigate tonight

Shining like a work of art
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?

You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky
Always the first star that I find
You're my satellite

Elevator to the moon
Whistling our favorite tune
Trying to get a closer view

You're my satellite
You're riding with me tonight
Passenger side, lighting the sky

We're not sentimental
We're just oil-filled machines
Trying not to say the things we mean
You gotta show us a little love

Our big brother tells us
That it's something in our genes
Pretty soon we'll all be coming clean
Gotta show us a little skin

I'm the judge and jury
I'm the lion and the lamb
This is the beginning of the end
It's breaking you down
We're breaking you down

We're unrecognizable

i've come down with something
i'm frozen tied up cast in lead
it's simple so says the captain
face forward, move slow, forge ahead

i'm earning a reputation
my conscience, mistrust and regret
courageous just like the captain
marching forward with no doubt in his head

onward! (x4)

Welcome you're under control
and buried like a mole
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