Dodge This! Songtext
What should we steal tonight?
Another hour, another year?
My wish is all the best
The only way out is through, we've got to live it through
Night falls and the wind rises
I've pushed through the gates and whistled at the stars
All we have are words, the kindness of animals, the flash of an earring in the dark
Remember, we only have a smell like ourselves
This need to live
Drink it up, feel it in your eyes, show them how to really smile
Another hour, another year?
My wish is all the best
The only way out is through, we've got to live it through
Night falls and the wind rises
I've pushed through the gates and whistled at the stars
All we have are words, the kindness of animals, the flash of an earring in the dark
Remember, we only have a smell like ourselves
This need to live
Drink it up, feel it in your eyes, show them how to really smile
Earlier today, a policeman asked me for my name and I told him: "I'm sorry but I'm seeing someone at the moment"
Neither the past, the present or the future matter to me
What matters to me is love, art and money
I'm running down the street and my arms are in the air and I'm shouting to them: "You can't make me care"
And I'm calling things that are [?]
And I'm not trying and neither are you and neither is anybody else
We're just dancing
There's no feeling in the world like riding at 150 miles-an-hour into the sunset
And not being able to remember what you had for lunch
You wanna know what's next? More apocalypse
Even if you could escape it, why would you want to?
It's also beautifully modern
I'm not leaving, I'm here for good
I won't lie to you, I was scared
I was scared when my life put me on a boat that I knew would sink but then I still got on
And while the whole setup was fantastic
And I was basically having the single greatest time of my young life
I still got the feeling
Call it intuition, call it luck
Call it whatever the word is for when you heat stroke twice in a week and start speaking Sanscrit That that ship wreck, once it happened, it would not be cinematic at all
It would not be heroic
I would not end up doing the great things that I can't remember now that I've dreamt of doing when I was little
But I still knew, back there in the dark and peaceful cave where most of my important thoughts were living at the time
That I would end up, ironically enough, like that [?] in the movie
Betrayed by his adored object, more naked than it's possible for a person to be and lost in the grey and frozen confusion of being left alone to die
And I also knew that if some part of me did
However incredibly, survive
That all that would be left of me
Of everything that could've ever been thought of definitely as me
Would just be some faded memory
And that, if you allow me to speak metaphorically for a moment
It would end up being just like some old-leather jacket
Made out of indifference and cynicism
That I would have to then shrug on [?] and log around [?] on my back for the rest of my fucking life
That's how I felt then and I don't think that I was wrong then either
I'll spare you of the gory details
But I will just say this
They gave the doctors that worked on the awards for exemplary performance in circumstances of extreme stress
All I really have to say is that I'm not scared anymore
I'm happy to be here with you all
And I feel extremely, extremely lucky to be alive
And if me and The Big Man upstairs didn't have such a complicated history
I'd kiss his hand right now
Because that shit there
That shit there was down-right miraculous, ok?
Neither the past, the present or the future matter to me
What matters to me is love, art and money
I'm running down the street and my arms are in the air and I'm shouting to them: "You can't make me care"
And I'm calling things that are [?]
And I'm not trying and neither are you and neither is anybody else
We're just dancing
There's no feeling in the world like riding at 150 miles-an-hour into the sunset
And not being able to remember what you had for lunch
You wanna know what's next? More apocalypse
Even if you could escape it, why would you want to?
It's also beautifully modern
I'm not leaving, I'm here for good
I won't lie to you, I was scared
I was scared when my life put me on a boat that I knew would sink but then I still got on
And while the whole setup was fantastic
And I was basically having the single greatest time of my young life
I still got the feeling
Call it intuition, call it luck
Call it whatever the word is for when you heat stroke twice in a week and start speaking Sanscrit That that ship wreck, once it happened, it would not be cinematic at all
It would not be heroic
I would not end up doing the great things that I can't remember now that I've dreamt of doing when I was little
But I still knew, back there in the dark and peaceful cave where most of my important thoughts were living at the time
That I would end up, ironically enough, like that [?] in the movie
Betrayed by his adored object, more naked than it's possible for a person to be and lost in the grey and frozen confusion of being left alone to die
And I also knew that if some part of me did
However incredibly, survive
That all that would be left of me
Of everything that could've ever been thought of definitely as me
Would just be some faded memory
And that, if you allow me to speak metaphorically for a moment
It would end up being just like some old-leather jacket
Made out of indifference and cynicism
That I would have to then shrug on [?] and log around [?] on my back for the rest of my fucking life
That's how I felt then and I don't think that I was wrong then either
I'll spare you of the gory details
But I will just say this
They gave the doctors that worked on the awards for exemplary performance in circumstances of extreme stress
All I really have to say is that I'm not scared anymore
I'm happy to be here with you all
And I feel extremely, extremely lucky to be alive
And if me and The Big Man upstairs didn't have such a complicated history
I'd kiss his hand right now
Because that shit there
That shit there was down-right miraculous, ok?
