Hide the sun
I will leave your face out of my mind
You should save your eyes
A thousand voices howling in my head

Speak in tongues
I don't even recognize your face
Mirror on the wall
Tell me all the ways to stay away-ay ay ay ya

Away-ay ya
Away-ay ya
And stay away-ay ya
Away-ay ya
Away-ay ya

Dig a hole
Fireworks exploding in my hands
If I could paint the sky
Would all the stars be shining bloody red?

Stay-ay ay ay ya away-ay ya away-ay ya
And stay-ay ay ay ya away-ay ya away-ay ya
And stay away-ay ya away-ay ya away-ay ya
And stay away-ay ya away-ay ya away-ay ya

Black out days
I don't recognize you anymore


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    My Interpretation

    Considering many other Phantogram songs, this is looking back at the, the days of distorted, forgotten, lost, unsettled memory, from When I'm Small being "underground", with "lucy", wanting to be thrown "in the flames" ... "the black out days."

    "Dig a hole," but unlike When I'm Small, keep the depths away, look to the sky.

    Discrepancy on the parenthesized lyrics at the end, They're definitely not all the same. I hear "they're not mine" in one of them, as in the voices aren't theirs anymore, "Black out days, I don't even recognize you anymore"

    MIghtyChorizoon October 24, 2013   Link

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