No Good With Faces Lyrics

Lyric discussion by kek 

Cover art for No Good With Faces lyrics by Jack Johnson

This is about being out of synch with modern life. If you are not on the same neurosis level most urban dwellers live in it gets hard to remember so many new different faces and names everyday. Even a handful of directions, turns and street names all at once can be said too fast for the relaxed mind to grasp.

Jack Johnson is a surfer: near the sea often there are lesser people, simpler street grids and more time. And at night you can see very well naturally due to moonlight.

Back in the city if a street lamp is broken, you are almost blind because all nearby artificial luminescence is blocking out the moonshine. So who broke the moonlight? We did Jack, we did it ourselves.

"I’m lost [ in the rush of urban pace ] I’m too tired to try [ to keep up with this nonsense ]"

For a musically-opposite take on the theme try Supersonic by Bad Religion :)

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