its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Poisonous precedence, a pointless experience
Accidental taxidermy, filling your head with
Sandblasting cemetery monuments naked
Downward velocity another endeavor
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky, we'll get old and die
Everything's better and then you notice that you were always unaware
Miscalculated the effectiveness of competent stupidity
There is no reason, you know?
No reason for being awake
Seems like we're trying much too hard
To recreate all of the same mistakes
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky we'll get old and die
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky we'll get old and die
Accidental taxidermy, filling your head with
Sandblasting cemetery monuments naked
Downward velocity another endeavor
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky, we'll get old and die
Everything's better and then you notice that you were always unaware
Miscalculated the effectiveness of competent stupidity
There is no reason, you know?
No reason for being awake
Seems like we're trying much too hard
To recreate all of the same mistakes
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky we'll get old and die
Failed to keep the necessary papers for evacuation
Hideously synchronized with cold and cruel arithmetic
We're desperately debilitated
If we're lucky we'll get old and die
Lyrics submitted by milkshakehoney
Pointless Experience Lyrics as written by Matthew James Flegel Daniel James Christiansen
Lyrics © SC PUBLISHING DBA SECRETLY CANADIAN PUB.
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I have no idea as to the meaning of it all. Is it about nothing? Everything? Who knows, and frankly, who cares when it sounds this good?