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Brains Lyrics
Starting the day
Staying awake
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe
No one is waiting
Brains without names
I found myself turning back to look
At the seas of people beneath me
Betrayed the design by release of immature emotion
I went to work
Had my suit jacket and hat in hand
A gate's crashed and flung wide
Used by our servants;
Heads are hanging
I went to church and forgot I ever could believe
Questions for the past of their clear minds
Were their thoughts without designation and division
Something desperate's up my sleeve
And no lines allow for mapping
Cause I close my eyes and feel the teeth of the machine
Walking on,
Us underneath
Ever harder to believe
I was ever holding my suit jacket
And hat in hand
Your nightmares/your creation
I objected with a knife
And when I finally let my guard down
I was in the middle of the sea and drowning
Don't be afraid
Don't be afraid
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe
No one is waiting
Brains without names
Staying awake
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe
No one is waiting
Brains without names
At the seas of people beneath me
Betrayed the design by release of immature emotion
I went to work
Had my suit jacket and hat in hand
Used by our servants;
Heads are hanging
I went to church and forgot I ever could believe
Questions for the past of their clear minds
Were their thoughts without designation and division
Something desperate's up my sleeve
And no lines allow for mapping
Cause I close my eyes and feel the teeth of the machine
Walking on,
Us underneath
Ever harder to believe
I was ever holding my suit jacket
And hat in hand
Your nightmares/your creation
I objected with a knife
And when I finally let my guard down
I was in the middle of the sea and drowning
Don't be afraid
Everything will change
While you're asleep
While you're breathing
Do you believe
No one is waiting
Brains without names
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This song is genius; I love the buildup. I've been trying to figure out the lyrics since I first heard it. Are these lyrics from the liner notes, i.e. 'official'? Because the part in the middle seems impossible to discern entirely. Also, I hear 'While you're dreaming' rather than 'breathing' in the first/last verse...I think that fits into the context of the other lyrics better. I have wondered if this song is about what goes on in your brain while you are sleeping/dreaming, and maybe the middle part is a description of a particular dream. But all just guesses. Again, possibly the best song of 2012 so far.