Perfect Symmetry

Album: Perfect Symmetry (2008)
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  • I shake through the wreckage for signs of life
    Scrolling through the paragraphs
    Clicking through the photographs

    I wish I could make sense of what we do
    Burning down the capitols
    The wisest of the animals

    Who are you, what are you living for
    Tooth for tooth, maybe we'll go one more

    This life, is lived in perfect symmetry
    What I do, that will be done to me

    Read page after page of analysis
    Looking for the final score
    We're no closer than we were before

    Who are you, what are you fighting for
    Holy truth? Brother I choose this mortal life
    Lived in perfect symmetry

    What I do, that will be done to me
    As the needle, slips into the run out groove
    Love, maybe you feel it too

    And maybe you find, life is unkind
    And over so soon
    There is no golden gate
    There's no heaven waiting for you

    Oh boy you ought to leave this town
    Get out while you can, the meter's running out
    The voices in the streets you love
    Everything is better when you hear that sound

    Spineless dreamers, hide in churches
    Pieces of pieces of rush hour, buses
    I dream in emails, worn out phrases
    Mile after mile of just empty pages

    Wrap yourself around me
    Wrap yourself around me

    As the needle, slips into the run out groove
    Maybe I'll feel it too
    Maybe you'll feel it too
    Maybe you'll feel it too (Spineless dreamers)
    Maybe you'll feel it too (hide in churches)
    (Pieces of pieces of rush hour, buses)

    I dream in emails, worn out phrases
    Mile after mile of just empty pages

    Spineless dreamers, hide in churches
    Pieces of pieces of rush hour, buses Writer/s: RICHARD DAVID HUGHES, TIMOTHY JAMES RICE-OXLEY, TOM CHAPLIN
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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