Gets You Wondering

In this age of existential angst, we’re all free enough to learn
Your freedom may be falsified by the paycheck that you earn
The people are always reminding me that you only live the once
But the irony is that to feel alive you must take life risks and stunts
Well I’m up to make the most of it, to make the most of mine
But I keep on meeting broken minds who are only 29
In a world where God has taken off and the wars have been and gone
A person’s left with just themselves and their own specific song
And if this world which sits alone in the space of its own tune
Well then sing a song but paint it well with this master of the moon
It’d be the hound dog whistle of a falling nuclear bomb
And the sighing cries of the revolutionaries that have waited far too long
And even worse the howling crack of the Justin Bieber blues
And if it's the case that you like that stuff, then no offense to you
But if you just wait through the noise, this generation holds a gem
The building block that you may miss but you’re sure to see again
You can fight the fire but you can’t deny the reality you’re in
But it gets you wondering.
I woke up quite fatigued one morn with cancer of the throat
But that’s what I get I suppose for being a smoking hipster dope
I went to the job anyway, otherwise I'd just be screwed
You don’t ask for life, but you pay for life, but life does not owe you
It works out the same way anyway whether life is short or long
You get to work and you fight all day and your colleagues play along
On a good day you might have a chat and get caught up in a debate
Like why’s that there and why’s that not and how much can humans take
And every time there’s always one who says the world is wrong
Well if that’s the case take a look around and try to grasp that we are young
For everyone’s direction song there’s a gracious rising sun
And for every act of pointless hate there’s a million loving mums
And every 4 years we peacefully cheer to watch some strangers run
And if I cause offense by saying so, I did not mean you none
But if you just wait through the noise, this generation holds a gem
A building block that you may miss but are sure to see again
You can fight the fire but you can’t deny the reality you’re in
But it gets you wondering
If you put life in a cider glass and drink the whole thing down
You might just end up drunk enough to get another round
And what that means is basically with pleasure comes the pain
And personally, once I am done, I’ll have the same again
Because if you just wait through the noise, this generation holds a gem
A building block that you may miss but are sure to see again
You can fight the fire but you can’t deny the reality you’re in
But it gets you wondering
It gets you wondering