Why'd you cut holes in the face of the moon base?
Don't you know about the temperature change
In the cold black shadow?
Are you mad at your walls
Or hoping that an unknown force can repair things for you?
Pardon all the time that you've thrown into your pale grey garden?
If the ship will never come you've got to move along

Even a bird would want a taste of dirt from abyssal dark
The prick of a feather could make a kingdom burn and the bloodshed start
The falling apart
Made me a shadow in the shape of wonder
The waves of black
If she's going under I can hold my breath till the sky comes back
Or drown like a rat, rat, rat
He's a rat!

To catch a monster
We make a movie
Set the tempo
And cut and cut its brains out
It will inspire on the burning pyre
Half the distance
Half the motion
Communication
It's easy as the ocean


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Of Moons, Birds & Monsters Lyrics as written by Benjamin Nicholas Huner Goldwasser Andrew Wells Vanwyngarden

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    a lot of the comments talk about the line, "communication is easy as the ocean." they say that it means communicating can be easy and calm like the ocean going back and forth.

    i heard the line differently. it sounds sarcastic. because oceans are not easy. at all. they are rough and wild and strong.

    i think this line means communication is never easy. its back and forth, and its rough.

    this is such a great line. very profound.

    i fucking love MGMT lol

    musiclover2192on March 01, 2010   Link

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