Name: Tempest
Duration: P00H03M35S
Description: A song about the brave new world.

Tempest

by Good Citizen

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A song about the brave new world.

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If the Train's too fast, get off
If the Train's too fast jump off
Jumping off will hurt a lot
If it's too fast get off

I can't keep shelling out to live in someone's perfect fission
And to "jack-in" would mean a painful surgical incision
Who knew Max Headroom was the seer with the clearest vision?
Knowing that sooner or later
There would be a Tempest
Not my place, Test my nerve,
Stand up straight, outside wave with a 6 foot face I'm
Tempted to get in the line-up
Rain on my skin wind in my hair but
I don't belong in there

There's a threat hanging over me
A minor threat hanging over me
I am not chained here, how could I be
It's hanging over me

I ramble on and on my people think I'm acting brutish
Just searching for the perfect balance so I must be foolish
I'm grasping at the straws and tea-leaves like a fortune teller
Knowing that sooner or later
There will be a Tempest
Not my place, Test my nerve,
Stand up straight, outside wave with a 10 foot face I'm
Tempted to get in the line-up
Rain on my skin wind in my hair but
I don't belong in there

If the Train's too fast, get off
If the Train's too fast jump off
Jumping off will hurt a lot
If it's too fast get off
There's a threat hanging over me
Between the devil and the deep blue sea but
I am not chained here, how could I be
It's hanging over me

Is this a plot to keep the lot of us real-life adjacent
While NSA gets hacked by some kid in his momma's basement?
This Irish forehead's now available for product placement
Just pay me by the size
Is it my doubtfulness that makes me sit and hesitate
Or by osmosis am I resolute to storm the gate?
And thus resolved I gather up myself and then I wait

Knowing that sooner or later
There will be a Tempest
Not my place, Test my nerve,
Stand up straight, outside wave with a 20 foot face I'm
Tempted to get in the line-up
Rain on my skin wind in my hair but
I don't belong in there

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released August 21, 2019
Music and Lyrics by Gene Whitright & Dina Predisik. All rights reserved. BMI

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