Flobots - Journey After (War Fatigues) Lyrics
[Jonny 5]
These songs won’t write them selves and its going no where..
These words I seen them some where
This path I walk by daylight
This bending corner is upon us don’t know what to say by
I’m who you've always wanted
You don’t know the order
Numbers I can make them plummet
I’m already at the summit
I already speak your language
You save yourself from anguish
I make myself a sandwich
I see the trickle of a brook over a fallen body
He wears the thistle we mistook him assault and robbery
So when they halt the bombing
As results are coming we can see if practice matches theory
And then assess our losses and then we learn our lessons
Then we count the tragedies and triumphs and traumatic stressing
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back - Back
Get back – Get back – Back
[Jonny 5, Mackenzie 33 and Brer Rabbit]
Cause these songs won’t write them selves’ and its going no where
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
These songs don’t write them selves’ and it’s going no where
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go (When its all worn)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go (worn off)
(When its all worn off)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When its all worn off when its all worn (off)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
Where do ya go where do ya go
[Brer Rabbit]
In the shadowed expanse between the distance of our hopes
I span from here to now with gossamer ropes
A broken bridge the only edge shakes with every passing step
We cannot repair all the things we have not kept
I’ve not wept enough in recent years to keep my eyes from drying up
I’ve slept enough in recent days to keep the flags of my dreams flying
The echoes of my empty heart are the closest things I have to screams
Fire at end and beginning so I fall to in-between
I wrought a treatise on busted guitar strings
Choked on cholesterol sentiments from aorta to arteries
With better aim then Artemis, gave key stone to arch enemies
Who swum in our midst like clown fish with sea anemones
Among death knells and threnodies and sex sells extremities
And health plans that promise better living through chemistry
I lost my identity, tossed to anonymity it’s my apocalypse now
I’m saying now serenity
We didn’t start the fire but provide the kindling
(When it’s all worn off where do ya go)
We didn’t start the fire but provided the kindling
(When it’s all worn off where do ya go)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go (where do you go-oo)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go(off)
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
[Verse 3]
Meet me at the clearing
Meet me at the space
Now that the ons and offs of the bombs have stopped
Upon this common spot our common thoughts calm us
Costs promises lost comments draw us closer
Yes sir no sir pressures over
Open mouths for closure
Cry for how I lacked compassion
Emotion
How I cast the net
The ocean
How I grasped your neck
The motion
You grasped for breath
I half confessed this
Friendship shell shocked
Made at the guillotine
My sis
My oath
Made at the crossroads
My trick is forgiveness
Yours isn’t
Impossible
Fugue state I’m no philistine
You yelled stop I didn’t hear you
Lovers leap from the mezzanine
Through hell hot on the path of gasoline
Know Christ know cross road block
Slick ice cold stop slow cries crowed
I denied you thrice I denied you that isn’t right
Tried to cheat the game but had to decide
Played your turn ran out of your life
Boss codes at the crossroads
That isn’t right
I’m glad you’re alive
Wounds so fresh
After my tongue licked clean - and so clean
Traded the pain with numbness - clean enough the pain is numb
I won’t defend what I’ve done just - could a been cleaner but I
Pray there’s some kind of benefit from it - prayed and wasn’t mean enough
I would never do what I did - my good meanings just
I would never do what I did - made it worse what I did
Coulda been a good little boy - I’m a coulda been cleaner left an
Big bad wolf wanna comeback kid - abscess of indifference
Rags, wounds, incisions - cold feet in a blizzard of indecision
War fatigues - yes I wore fatigues
Fields cleanse - made you hafta cleanse my bayonet
Til healed when it’s all worn (OFF!!!!) - perform the surgery(eeee-oooo)
[Epilogue]
Where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go
When it’s all worn off where do ya go (off)
These songs won’t write them selves and its going no where..
Other Lyrics by Artist
- Flobots - Rockmine
- Flobots - Philia (Prelude)
- Flobots - Stop The Apocalypse
- Flobots - Journey After (War Fatigues)
- Flobots - Occupyearth
- Flobots - The Rose And The Thistle
- Flobots - Loneliness
- Flobots - Wrestling Israel
- Flobots - One Last Show
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- Flobots - Run (Run Run Run)
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Flobots Journey After (War Fatigues) Comments
Brer Rabbit
Meet me at the space
ons and offs, the bombs have stopped upon this common spot our common thoughts.
calm us cost promises
draw us closer
no sir pressure's over open mouth for closure
cry for how I lacked emotion
how I cast the ocean
how I grasped the motion
I half confessed
friend. shell. made at the guillotine. my oath, made at the crossroads my trick. forgiveness. yours isn't....
fugue state
you yelled stop
lover's leap
through hell hot
know
know
road
slick
cold
slow
crowd
thrice
tried to cheat the game but had to decide
played your turn ran out of your lives
boss codes at the crossroads
that isn't right I'm glad you're alive
Wounds so fresh
And so clean
Clean enough
the pain is numb
could've been
cleaner but
prayed it wasn't
mean enough
my good
meaning just
made it worse
what I did
coulda been
cleaner left
abscess of
indifference
cold feet in a blizzard indecision
yes I wore fatigues
made you hafta cleanse my bayonet
perform the surgery
Jonny 5
meet me at the clearing
now that the ons and offs
upon this common spot our common thoughts
calm us
lost comments draw us closer
yes sir
over open mouth for closure
for how i lack compassion
how i cast the net
how i grasp your neck
you gasp for breath
I half confessed this
ship, shock at the guillotine
my sis at the crossroads
my is forgiveness
yours isn't impossible
I'm no I'm no I'm no phillistine
I didn't I didn't I didn't hear you
from the from the from the mezzanine
on the on the path of gasoline
christ
cross
block
ice
stop
cries
I denied you that isn't right
tried to cheat the game but had to decide
played your turn ran outa your lives
I'm glad you're alive
wounds so fresh
after my tongue
licked clean
traded the pain with numbness
I won't defend what I've done just
pray there's some kinda benefit from it
I would never do what I did
I would never do what I did
Coulda been a good little boy
I'm a big bad wolf wanna come back kid
Rags, wounds, incisions.
war fatigues
fields, cleans til healed
when it's all worn off
Their lyrics and rhythms are the stuff of Legend
One day on the way to school i fell asleep on the bus with my headphones on. I woke up to the part of the song where they alternate and overlap lines and i was still groggy. I felt like i was going insane (in the best of ways) it was so loud and evocative and it's an experience i treasure.
Listening to this with headphones is an entirely different experience. Waking up to it even more so.
This is definitely the best song I have ever heard.
I thought is was all rite
not a sandwich! nooooo!
Exactly. What i get from it is the possibilities are endless for mankind good and bad.
I wasn't paying attention and then I heard SANDWICH.
I make myself a SANDWICH
Yeah, the best Flobots songs are the serious ones. Even Handlebars is pretty heavy, but most people that only listen to that song because it was on the radio just don't pay attention to what he is saying.
Flobots... BEST underrated band out there. No promotions, no advertisements. Nothing. All word of mouth, only they can make it this amazing. I love them
Definitely my favorite track of this album. Best Flobots album to date.
Definitely. Well, I think Hunger Games may lean towards socialism more, whereas Flobots are probably a bit more liberal than socialist.Fun fact, Panem is Latin for bread, which is a reference to 'Bread and Circuses', a satire of how capitalist societies entertain and feed the masses to absolve them of any political interest.
Hey guys. If u like johnny 5 yak brer check out my music :) they are my absolute biggest inspiration! It would be my dream to do a feature ! :) we didn't start the fire but provide the kindling :):):)
Okay... This MAY just be because I'm 16... But I think this fits in the Hunger Games trilogy. In fact, half of the album fits in it. Because if you take out the love triangle parts... It's kinda like a book about revolution... And these songs... Just fit VERY well...
I THINK I'M IN LOVE AGAIN <3 ... WITH THIS ALBUM <33
goes bumps
Whenever I hear Brer say "Now: Serenity," I'm instantly reminded of Seinfeld.
The vocal part from 3:18 always amazes me
This might be my favorite song from the album as well
Flobots get better each CD