The Black Suits (Original LA Cast)

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The Answer

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The Answer

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When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have

Before it spreads to the deck?

When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have

Before it spreads to the deck?

Minutes? Hours?

What time is it anyway?

How do you tell your family

That you wanna quit school

And just play with your band?

When a fire starts burning

How much time do you have

Before it burns itself out?

And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school, or maybe love

Or maybe none of the above

Is the answer

Maybe for once I'll really try

Or fuck it all and just get high

'Cause that's an answer

Feels like an answer

And who do I wanna be?

Question 23

What's the furthest distance a ship

can be from shore before it loses its signal?

What's the furthest distance a ship

can be from shore before it loses its signal?

And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I doing here?

Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?

What am I looking for?

Maybe school, or maybe love

Or maybe none of the above

Is the answer

Maybe for once I'll really try

Or fuck it all and just get high

'Cause that's an answer

Maybe I'll practice my guitar

Or read a book or steal a car

And steal the answer

I'll get a job and get paid

Or get a girlfriend and get laid

And get the answer

I'll join the army, go to war

Give up my smoke

To smoke some more

I need an answer

Move to the village, shave my head

Wind up happy, wind up dead

Wind up in debt, wind up in love

Or maybe none of the above

Is the answer

Maybe it's ok that I don't have a plan

And I don't have a clue

I'm nineteen and that doesn't mean

That I should know exactly what I want to do, right?

I'm nineteen and that doesn't mean

That I should know what I want to do

I've got time to make mistakes

Make up my mind

I've got time enough to find out

All the answers

But I am scared and I'm afraid

That a decision won't get made

And I'll be like this forever

I need help, need extra help

To find the answers

What's the answer?

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't know

I don't, I don't know

When a fire starts in the hull

How much time do you have

Before it spreads to the deck?

Pencils down

Papers turned over

Time's up

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