Entertainment

Album: Appeal To Reason (2008)
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  • All we are is entertainment
    Caught up in our own derangement
    Tell us what to say and what to do
    All we are are pretty faces
    Picture perfect bottled rage
    Packaged synthesized versions of you

    We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life
    Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms
    They all scream California and its toppling empire
    Can't you see the end is coming soon

    Come one come all the new sensation
    Guarantees that obligations
    Spotlights follow every single move
    Basking here on ten-foot stages
    Pouty lips and oh, so jaded
    All as if we have something to prove

    Despite these petty fortunes we still can't afford a life
    Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms
    They all scream California and its toppling empire
    But can't you see the end is here

    And if we cared at all
    About this unknown plight
    Then we'd do something more
    To finally make this right

    Is this only entertainment?
    Pull the curtains, places please
    We've learned to sing and dance and cry on cue
    But this is more than entertainment
    In a world so sick with pain
    This is the only thing that's real or true

    We've all made petty fortunes but we can't afford a life
    Confined to pull-out quotes and hotel rooms
    They all scream bloody murder over graves already dug
    But can't you see the end? Writer/s: BRANDON BARNES, JOSEPH PRINCIPE, TIMOTHY MCILRATH, ZACH BLAIR
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Neva from Gonna, MeI believe that this song is about the Armed Forces fighting for our country. All we hear is the news, and the bad stuff. This war has gotten to a point where many people are not supporting our troups. And as one person told me (not a joke) "The army is more of entertainment, just make a show about it." SUPPORT OUR TROUPS!!!!!!! This was isnt over yet, and until the day it is, i will not stop my support.
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