Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet
No time to argue with belief
I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping
Faster than me
What put me here?
Nothing to hold on to
Nowhere to brake

[Chorus]
Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
I've got to follow another direction (although fall down is much cooler)

The last thing I remember was climbing up the stairs
I threw the window open in challenge and despair
I don't know what I needed
I needed time
I needed to escape
I saw the future turn
Upside-down and hesitate.

[Chorus]

Accelerate

The vista I see now is changing
Uncertainty is suffocating
Our hope has never felt so great and
Lit up down
A pounding pulse
To make it go
Make it slow down,
Go.

[Chorus]

The city's burning, it's like it's ready to explode
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete


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Accelerate Lyrics as written by Mike Mills Peter Buck

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    Unlikely that it is directly aimed at W seeing as he is on the way out no matter what anyway. To me this song is more about soldier / war.

    "No time to argue with belief I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping Faster than me" Christian or whatever, if you are in the army and they shoot at you.. you shoot back. When the bullet flies past you, the politics goes out the window and you worry about getting the hell out of these. (Standard human nature). Looking around at all the others dyeing in the thousands you wonder why you are stuck there. And etc. You get my train of thought. But that's just me.

    s3ntinalon September 03, 2008   Link

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