Adding To The Noise

Album: The Beautiful Letdown (2003)
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  • What's it gonna take
    To slow us down
    To let the silence spin us around?
    What's it gonna take
    To drop this town?
    We've been spinning at the speed of sound.
    Stepping out of those convenience stores
    What could we want but more more more?
    From the third world
    To the corporate core
    We are a symphony of modern humanity
    If we're adding to the noise
    Turn off this song
    If we're adding to the noise
    Turn off your stereo, stereo, stereo
    I don't know
    What they're gonna think of next
    Genetic engineers of the most high tech
    A couple new ways
    To fall into debt
    I'm a nervous wreck but I'll bet
    That that T.V. set
    Tells us what we've wanted to hear
    But none of these sound bites
    Are coming in clear
    From the third world to the corporate ear
    We are the symphony of modern humanity. Publisher: Capitol CMG Publishing, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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Comments: 1

  • Jerry from Anaheim, CaHaha that helps. I never knew what it really meant even though i tried guessing.

    I thought it was more like Christianity is bein blocked out as time passing and they were being all "If were bugging you (adding to the noise), don't erase our religion, just ignore us (Turn off this song)" but whatever.
    It's an awesome song still. ^^
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