Future Reflections
by MGMT

Album: Oracular Spectacular (2007)
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  • And there were future reflections
    On the face and the hands
    On a green colored island
    On a primitive man
    It was the future reflected
    It felt familiar but new
    A street was missing a building
    The kids had something to do

    There was a feeling the spirit was leaving
    Red like a marker
    So my tribe, with my knife
    Cut the heart from a lonely life

    I saw patterns on floorboards
    Deep in the dust was a leader
    Someone was walking on floorboards
    Turned them from oak to cedar
    He can assess the situation
    I wrapped a string around my finger
    Into the forest with the young ones
    I don't expect to be a winner

    But as long as you feel it
    I'm a believer
    My heart is phosphor
    Sea rolls and death tolls
    Break the surface don't break my bones

    Off of the trail and off of your hands and
    Onto a new plan
    Is the cost to stay lost
    Forever in an empty skin
    Pale and thin

    If it's good, or if it's fortune, I can't tell
    But pieces come together for some reason just as well
    Their guns couldn't see us
    There's a sea outside my door
    And one day I'll appreciate
    The rush of blood and the washed out beat of the shore

    And remember what it felt like
    To be alone
    Sitting in the sunlight
    All alone Writer/s: ANDREW WELLS VANWYNGARDEN, BENJAMIN NICHOLAS HUNER GOLDWASSER
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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