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Artist: 311
Canonical path: /311/the-other-side-of-things
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The Other Side of Things
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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The Other Side of Things
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Houston we have a problem
all this TV has made us dumb
anxious is what we've become
too much prozac in our systems
it's our mental condition
it's our mental condition
one thing lacks is education
institutions fuck with our
Emotions are elastic
they stretch out and back
stretch out and back
sometimes they just snap
they don't go back
they never go back
What if it were true
that you weren't so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything, yeah
but we're facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it's rising
and we are on the other side of things
There's no procrastination
maybe I should do it to do it straight
I see people wasting time with so much pointless debate
I can't wait for the over analytical politically correct
upset by threats to the national mindset
I bet we'd let reverse psychology
mob mentality over our ecology
at college we could learn but
usually we burn and then we waste it
taste it time and time again
it's time to take your medicine
Emotions are elastic
they stretch out and back
stretch out and back
sometimes they just snap
they don't go back
they never go back
What if it were true
that you weren't so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything, yeah
but we're facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it's rising
and we are on the other side of things
What if it were true
that you weren't so blue
and you felt like you
could just do anything, yeah
but we're facing the sunset
and for a moment it
looks like it's rising
and we are on the other side of things
side of things
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