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Artist: Pain of Salvation
Canonical path: /pain-of-salvation/stress
Related lyric paths: 6
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Stress
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Stress
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(Watching corners and crossing
Watching all the red lights watching the stress
Watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars
I'm drowning in this mess)
Help me! Rescue me! Save me! Set me free!
(Watching all the stress)
It is strange
Among all people I feel alone
Very strange
Despite the sun I'm cold to the bone!
If this is progress let me out!
Up on the rooftops I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive
Up on the rooftops I feel so free
Far from the city that's suffocating me
(Watching corners and crossing
Watching all the red lights watching the stress
Watching beggars and bankers and rushing cars
I'm drowning in this mess)
Is this what we want?
I believe!
Beneath the surface we turn to stone
Can't you see?
You meet your neighbors over the phone!
I'm awake, watch me!
I'll escape, watch me!
If this is progress help me to regress!
Alone by the ocean I feel alive
Lovely detached from the human hive
Alone by the ocean I feel so free
Far from the city that's suffocating me
You live too shallow act too deep!
Fail to sow but proudly reap!
And you still need more!
Indians show us where you're from
Stress indicates what we'll all become!
In time you'll awake!
In time you'll escape!
In time you'll awake!
You'll see what's at stake!
Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?
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