Tonite

Album: American Dream (2017)
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  • Everybody's singing the same song
    It goes "tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight"
    I never realized these artists thought so much about dying

    But truth be told we all have the same end
    Could make you cry, cry, cry, cry, cry
    But I'm telling you
    This is the best news you're getting all week

    Oh sure it's ruling the airwaves
    What remains of the airwaves
    And we're frankly thankful for the market psychology you're hipping us to

    And all the hits are saying the same thing
    There's only tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight
    Then life is finite
    But shit, it feels like forever
    It feels like forever

    Oh is everybody feeling the same stuff?
    We're all wild
    Except for you
    And you know who you are
    This is a love song

    And you're getting older
    I promise you this; you're getting older
    And there's improvements unless
    You're such a winner
    That the future's a nightmare
    And there's nothing I can do
    Nothing anyone can do about this

    And oh, I'm offering you a chance to get even
    But oh, you know very well the dialect of negation
    Sure enemies haunt you with spit and derision
    But friends are the ones who can put you in an exile
    But that's not right

    And you're too sharp to be used
    Or you're too shocked from being used
    By these bullying children of the fabulous
    Raffling off limited edition shoes

    And what's it you do again?
    Oh I'm a reminder
    The hobbled veteran of the disk shop inquisition
    Set to parry the cocksure of men's sick filth
    With my own late era middle-aged ramblings
    Every lover favors the same things
    It's all "touch me, touch me, touch me, touch me tonight"
    We maybe realize what it is we need before we die

    And luck is always better than skill at things
    We're flying blind
    Oh good gracious
    I sound like my mom

    But out of the little rooms and onto the streets
    You've lost your internet and we've lost our memory
    We had a paper trail that led to our secrets
    But embarrassing pictures have now all been deleted
    By versions of selves that we thought were the best ones
    'Till versions of versions of others repeating
    Come laughing at everything we thought was important
    While still making mistakes that you thought you had learned from
    And reasonable people know better than you
    That cost in the long run but they don't know the short game
    And terrible people know better than you
    They're used and abused of the once so dear listener
    So you will be badgered and taunted until death
    You're missing a party that you'll never get over
    You hate the idea that you're wasting your youth
    That you stood in the background oh until you got older
    But that's all lies
    That's all lies

    It's gonna have to be good enough, I can't do this anymore, my brain won't work Writer/s: Alan Thomas Doyle, James Jeremiah Murphy
    Publisher: DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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