Warning Lights

from A Great Broken World by MORTARS

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It was hotter than a mortar shell
All warning lights were blaring
We left rubber melting on the road
Cause we couldn't take the boring repetition of these summer days
Passing out and heaving
If there's something that would cure our hearts
We wouldn't have believed it

First thing we made it out of town
and left the whole damn place to rot
Inside it's steel and concrete coffin
But we still have not forgotten
So now we kill ourselves to calm ourselves
Wish that we could heal ourselves
But we left our selves on rusted shelves, in parking lots, in prison cells
Never fails, we're hollow shells
We never seem to break these spells

And I know we've lost some contact with reality
These languages and actions
Are just so surreal it seems
If they're so strange, then we're from space
Maybe we're still in America, but I don't feel none too brave

And last night you drove that stolen car onto a frozen lake
Spun the wheels and gunned the engine
Praying somehow it don't break
But then the other side of where we've been
Police cars and firemen
Was it too late to try again?
Did you have cuts you couldn't mend?
We're we just trying to pretend?
I know, but I can't comprehend
I hope I see you in the end
My regards to you I send
My old best friend.

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from A Great Broken World, released January 28, 2018

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The part of the lake where all the trash washes up, the driveway at the house show when the AC is broken and it is too hot to play inside, the basement where you have to watch what you step on and the air feels real heavy. That is where we shine.

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