The Divine Zero

Album: Misadventures (2015)
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  • Maybe I could swim into your thoughts like your drugs do
    Paralyze your body, sick and tired of waking up to
    Burning eyes and cigarettes
    I'm falling through the couch like a suicide mission tonight
    My God, here comes the downside
    Wild eyes of terror pray for sex on the beach
    While oceans of kerosene will soak into me
    I'm not meant for this world, I just don't see the point
    Don't think about it, don't over think about it
    And life is a joke, but everything's riding on me tonight
    Been counting the stars and scars
    How I'm becoming a work of art

    In desperate times and desperate measures
    I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside
    A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

    The whispered words you'd better hide the bullets
    You stayed on the phone and talked to me day and night
    Trigger my nightmare once again
    And it's fucking loaded in hand
    And we'll let the fire rage
    The smoke and the drowning flames
    My bedroom computer light is the only menace to my new faux wooden blinds

    In desperate times and desperate measures
    I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside
    A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

    Now, I only pray when it all goes down
    I'll be surrounded by all of the ones I've loved and cared about
    And then burn it down

    Go

    Yeah

    And life is a joke
    At least I can love you, naked and tattooed
    Counting the stars and scars
    And if the pain is a sound, let's slow it down

    Desperate times and desperate measures
    I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside
    A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

    Now, I only pray when it all goes down
    I'll be surrounded by all of the ones I've loved and cared about
    And then burn it down

    Your serotonin's gone
    The kerosene is gone
    The sunset is gone
    So hold on
    Your serotonin's gone
    The kerosene's gone
    The sunset is gone
    It's all gone, all gone, all gone, all gone Writer/s: Brad Hargreaves, Curtis Peoples, Victor Vincent Fuentes
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Julianne from Bakersfield, CaFor me, this song feels really personal. Vic was clearly singing with as much emotion as he could, and this is a lyrical masterpiece. “Desperate times and desperate measures” makes me think that he felt like time was of the essence during this part of his life, and the line “a million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile” shows how the person he’s taking about feels as if they’re a small, almost insignificant part of the world as a whole, but it’s possible that they could make an impact. “How I’m becoming a work of art” is a more optimistic outlook on a rather depressing song.
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