Lake Michigan

Rogue Wave

Heaven is a switchboard that you want to fight
She would even miss you if you taught her sight
Power politician leaning to the right
Baby's got a trust fund
That she'll want to go off like that
Get off of my stack
Leave a little window
Get off of my stack

Now we wear same-colored yellow uniforms
Sky is burning
But at least we're warm
Go and run yourself a million miles
Hoping that the colors run out
And you go off like that
Get off of my stack
Leave a little window
Get off of my stack

You can never see yourself
Ringing all around it

No one is on lake Michigan
You labored on, lake Michigan

Not another payoff
Get off of my stack
Leave a little window
Get off of my stack
You know it won't do
Get off of my stack


Lyrics submitted by littlemass

Lake Michigan Lyrics as written by Zachary David Schwartz

Lyrics © ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

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    Lake Michigan, as much as everyone here would love to believe, is actually NOT a polluted shithole lake surrounded by factories that dump excessive waste into it (Unless you're in Indiana, but of course, that's just Indiana).

    I swim in Lake Michigan all the time...its basically my swimming pool. Jump right off the concrete seawall north of oak street beach. It's actually quite awesome. Chicago's lakefront was recently ranked one of the cleanest in the world.

    So, anyways, yes i think this song is about pollution, but stereotyping the great lakes region as an industrial waste-dumping craphouse is pretty inaccurate. Californians seem to make a habit of that...

    uwbadgers1192on December 03, 2008   Link

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