He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
If all my enemies threw a party
Would you light the candles
Would you drink the wine
While watching television
Watch the animals
And all the tragedies
And sell your arteries
And buy my casket gown
Well it better be black (woah)
And it better be tight (woah)
And it better be just my size (woah)
I'm stalking these metro malls
And airport halls
And all these schoolgirls say
I'm not asking
You're not telling
He's not dead
He only looks that...
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Sing a song for California
I buy my enemies rope to hang me
And the knives to gang me
You can watch them stab me
On your television
Stalk the halls
Because the bathroom walls
Would have a lot to say
About the lines you’re putting down
Well it better be white (woah)
And it better be cut (woah)
And it better be just my size (woah)
Until my capillaries
Burst from boredom
I'll be waiting
I'm not laughing
You're not joking
I'm not dead
I only dress that…
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Sing a song for California
Wherever you are
Wherever you are
Whoever you are
Whoever you are
La la la la
‘Cause we got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Say a prayer for California
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
Would you light the candles
Would you drink the wine
While watching television
Watch the animals
And all the tragedies
And sell your arteries
And buy my casket gown
Well it better be black (woah)
And it better be tight (woah)
And it better be just my size (woah)
I'm stalking these metro malls
And airport halls
And all these schoolgirls say
I'm not asking
You're not telling
He's not dead
He only looks that...
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Sing a song for California
I buy my enemies rope to hang me
And the knives to gang me
You can watch them stab me
On your television
Stalk the halls
Because the bathroom walls
Would have a lot to say
About the lines you’re putting down
Well it better be white (woah)
And it better be cut (woah)
And it better be just my size (woah)
Until my capillaries
Burst from boredom
I'll be waiting
I'm not laughing
You're not joking
I'm not dead
I only dress that…
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Sing a song for California
Wherever you are
Wherever you are
Whoever you are
Whoever you are
La la la la
‘Cause we got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
We got the bomb
We got the bomb, let’s go
Way out nowhere
Take me out there
Far away and
Save me from my
Self-destruction
Hopeless for ya
Say a prayer for California
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
We got the bomb
Lyrics submitted by Fayiirah, edited by ghostyyy, SmashingDestiny
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anyone else just... chronically have this stuck in their head?