Drowning In The Sound

You worship the sun and you’re aching for change

But you keep starving your heart

You used to have sisters

You don’t anymore

You worship the sun

But you keep feeding the dark

And I'm out in the yard

With my son and daughter

And the sky is all black and I think we should start running

Running from the water

And everybody’s yelling

Yelling that they’re coming

But I don’t see a single soul

They’re all so busy yelling

Not one of them is hearing

The hissing from the bottom of the boat

I got some feelings up my sleeve

I got a compass in my arm

I got a needle in my heart

It’s gonna tell us where we are

South by south west

Two miles from town

I can’t get out

I can’t look down

If you can hear

If you’re around

I’m over here

I’m over here

I’m watching everyone I love

Drowning in the sound

You worship the sun

But the moons in the way

So get your armaments out

She’s always looking for trouble

She’s gonna get what’s been coming to her

She’s switching the tide and we can’t have that shit around

The television they’re blaring out the warning

That our natural state is drowning

That our natural state is burning

And you’re trying to help

And you’re clicking for change

And you’re calling it out

And you’re adding your name

And you’re marching for peace

But you’re lynching the bitch

That got up in your face

How else they gonna to take you seriously?

South by south west

Two miles from town

I can’t get out

I can’t look down

If you can hear

If you’re around

I’m over here

I’m over here

I’m watching

Everyone I love

Drowning in the sound

And your body is a temple

But the temple is a prison

And the prison’s overcrowded

And they know about the flooding

And the body politic is getting sicker by the minute

And the media’s not fake

It’s just very

Inconvenient

Do you ever feel that this should be officially the end?

And that you should be the one to do the ending but you can’t?

And do you ever feel that everyone is slowly letting go

Do you ever feel that incredibly alone?

And they’re saying not to panic

And it’s like a broken record

Not like anybody know what that is

And they’re saying that they’ll manage

It's the hottest one on record

And they’re saying that it’s just the way it is

And now I can taste it coming

I can taste it with my tongue

And my children are so heavy

But I pick them up and run

And I know I’ll have to swim soon

When the water gets too high

I’ll keep on holding them above me

I'll keep on holding them and crying

South by south west

Two miles from town

I can’t get out

I can’t look down

If you can hear

If you’re around

I’m over here

I’m watching

Everyone I love

Everyone I love

Everyone on earth

Drowning in the sound

You worship the sun and you’re aching for change

But you keep starving your heart

You used to have sisters

You don’t anymore

You worship the sun

But you keep feeding the dark