Stop what you're doing;
I don't think it's becoming of you
To treat your friends like that,
And all you've been saying -
Man, it's driving me right up the wall.
I don't think I'm down with that.
And what you gonna say when you're alone?
And where are gonna turn when there ain't nowhere left to go?
Well, I think
This is a condition
That you're living in -
You've been living in.
And this is a condition
That you're living in,
And you won't win so
Turn it off and start it up again.
And now you're just fading;
You're not quite the person that you were
Back then when we'd hang out.
And man you've been changing;
I don't think I even recognize
This person you are now.
And I don't mean for this to bring you down;
I'd like to think you'd hear this song and turn it all around.
But I know:
This is a condition
That you're living in -
You've been living in.
And this is a condition
That you're living in,
And you won't win so
Turn it off and start it up again.
Start it up again.
Start it up again.
Start it up again.
It takes a sea of change
That I cannot explain.
I can't wait for it to come,
'Cause you'll just end up numb to it.
I don't think it's becoming of you
To treat your friends like that,
And all you've been saying -
Man, it's driving me right up the wall.
I don't think I'm down with that.
And where are gonna turn when there ain't nowhere left to go?
Well, I think
This is a condition
That you're living in -
You've been living in.
And this is a condition
That you're living in,
And you won't win so
Turn it off and start it up again.
You're not quite the person that you were
Back then when we'd hang out.
And man you've been changing;
I don't think I even recognize
This person you are now.
I'd like to think you'd hear this song and turn it all around.
But I know:
This is a condition
That you're living in -
You've been living in.
And this is a condition
That you're living in,
And you won't win so
Turn it off and start it up again.
Start it up again.
Start it up again.
Start it up again.
That I cannot explain.
I can't wait for it to come,
'Cause you'll just end up numb to it.
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I think this song's meaning is pretty obvious except for this one line:
And now you're just fading;
Is this an allusion to C. S. Lewis' Great Divorce?