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Category: Studio Recording
Written: 2005
Recorded: 2009
lyrics
Let the trigger go
Put your weapons down
Time to contemplate
It’s not who you know
It’s not what you do
It’s not what you make
Oh, water’s running down every single drain
Chemicals react in you and me the same now
You gotta take a breath
You can’t separate
Why you wanna run me out of town?
Why you wanna wear each other down?
Why you wanna run this like a race?
No matter how you get there
All of us are going to the same place
You’re on a sugar high
Put your soda down
Decarbonate
All your present needs
Will make your future bleed
They can all wait
Oh, Kelly knows a Richard, Richard knows a Jane
Jane knows a Marcus, Marcus is the same guy
That you used to be
Don’t look away
Why you wanna run us out of town?
Why you wanna wear each other down?
Why you wanna treat this like a race?
All of us are going
All of us are going to the same place
Water’s running down every single drain
Chemicals react in you and me the same now
You gotta take a break
Why you wanna run us out of town?
Why you gonna wear each other down?
Why you wanna treat this like a race?
Both of us are going
Both of us are going to the same place
Why you wanna wear each other down?
credits
from Posthaste (2001-2012),
released December 4, 2012
Credits: Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Bart Schoudel & Ron Haney at Near Studios in Long Branch, NJ. Written by V.E. with Ron Haney & Bart Schoudel (Near Records / Low Sunday Songs [BMI]). Musicians: V.E.: vocals, guitar / Ron Haney: bass, guitar, keyboards / Bart Schoudel: vocals / Gordon Brown: guitar
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