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100 Years Of Solitude Lyrics
All around you slow decay
Wanna feel the sun of a new day
Forget all the chances lost
Shedding innocence like falling dust
All the things you learned too young
The songs you knew but never sung
Waited a long time and wasted more
Forgotten what you waited for
Excuse me ma'am for being so rude
Feels like 100 years of solitude
My mind is numb but my mouth's okay
And you can listen or walk away
No solutions built to last
Just petty scores to settle fast
The N.M.E. was nothing to you
And the maker, well the maker of who
This walkman generation
In search of sweet sedation
While forests choke under a lever sky
And the Exxon birds that will never fly
We tried, we cried, we fell, we lied
This life's like a white knucke ride
Crack babies born too young
And L.A. kids who dance to the gun
So forget this so called dirt of mine
It's just the dust and diesel of passing time
It's all around you - a tragedy, look
So forget the cover and read the book
Wanna feel the sun of a new day
Forget all the chances lost
Shedding innocence like falling dust
All the things you learned too young
The songs you knew but never sung
Waited a long time and wasted more
Forgotten what you waited for
Feels like 100 years of solitude
My mind is numb but my mouth's okay
And you can listen or walk away
Just petty scores to settle fast
The N.M.E. was nothing to you
And the maker, well the maker of who
This walkman generation
In search of sweet sedation
While forests choke under a lever sky
And the Exxon birds that will never fly
This life's like a white knucke ride
Crack babies born too young
And L.A. kids who dance to the gun
So forget this so called dirt of mine
It's just the dust and diesel of passing time
It's all around you - a tragedy, look
So forget the cover and read the book
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"Exxon birds that will never fly" -for anyone who doesn't recall, this refers to the laying waste of Prince William Sound, Alaska, by crude oil leaking from the tanker Exxon Valdez; thousands of seabirds died as a result.
One of my favourite Angry Songs, this.
Basically its all about wanting a better life and a better future, but you're just bitching about it to people who probably won't listen. The NME bit is all to do with the ongoing spat the Levs had with the music press back in the early 1990s, whereas the title of the song is taken from a Gabriel Garcia Marquez book - their bass player is a prolific reader, so it wouldn't surprise me if that's where it came from.
To me its about the assault of modern life and the sins of society