Silversun Pickups - Better Nature Album Lyrics

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Cradle (Better Nature)

Someone long gone
Said to stay calm
Keep your head on
If you need love

Hide your cradle
And a headstone
In the watermark
When the sea comes

Help me swallow up
All of your better nature
Please can you summon up
All of your better nature

When your mind's off
In a tight knot
Can you feel caught
If you need love

Help me swallow up
All of your better nature
Please can you summon up
All of your better nature

Hold on
I think you're wrong

Help me swallow up
All of your better nature
Please can you summon up
All of your better nature

Better nature
Better nature...

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Connection

How in the world can i explain
When the words leap off from the page?
Is there a way to celebrate
When I'm scared straight from the past parades?

The kids are throwing all their charms at
The ladies stuck in victory march
With no new trails to blaze

This is my connection
This will leave an impression

How in the world can I compete
With I'm plugged into the new machines?
Lazer focused on the screens
I was lit up with self-esteem

My ears will ring with monotome
When their bodies fill with memory foam
I can't help it, I wanna hear them scream

This is my connection
this will leave an impression

Burn on in
Burn on in

This is not a connection
This is not an infection
This will leave an impression
(This is my connection)

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Pins And Needles

I like friends and I like strangers
Carved out forms of steamy nature
Coming on strong but soon or later
A curtain calls on misbehavior

When you seal it away and you're on your own
And you brush away the old war zones
And the music plays for broken bones
We'll be running again away we go
Away we go

I like trends and I like heydays
And being caught in the haze of sleeping late
But when nighttime comes, I see you straining
Through my fingertips, I feel you changing

When you seal it away and you're on your own
And you brush away the old war zones
And the music plays for broken bones
We'll be running again away we go
Away we go

Leave it alone
My how you've grown
Never knew how low
You could get before zero
Cling in a way
That'll drive us insane

Wait 'til you find
The end of the line

When you seal it away and you're on your own
And you brush away the old war zones
And the music plays for broken bones
We'll be running again away we go

When you seal it away and you're on your own
And you brush away the old war zones
And the music plays for broken bones
We'll be running again away we go
Away we go

Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin,
Pins and needles in your skin

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Friendly Fires

Oh, the things we see
Through connected wires
Are the people that flee
From friendly fire?

When they separate me
Into being stored
With all the recessed genes
That are left ignored

Getting naked all the time
Why dodge the friendly fire?

So who could ever break you down?
And what could ever freak you out?
If you can carry this around.
Then you will never break down.

People like me
On the weekend, run
For all the weekday freaks
That are free and fun

Like they physically
Stormed into homes
They like to revel like me
Just to feel employed

A little wasted on desire
A minute later, friendly fire
A little wasted on desire
A minute later, friendly fire

So could ever break you down?
And what could ever freak you out?
If you can carry this around.
Then you will never break down

Getting naked all the time
A little wasted on desire
A minute later, friendly fire

So who could ever break you down?
And what could ever freak you out?
If you can carry this around.
Then you will never break down
Then you will never break down
Then you carry this around.

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Nightlight

When the wind, behind our eyes swell
Starring down all, who generalize well
A chemical change of the spirit
Will be the exchange for our visit

Putting more makeup on the masks that we wear
Turning our nightlights on in the daytime to scare

If we say that (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If it's a game, well? (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out

If we enter, through the front door
With the keys we stole the night before
Now we have right to be the masters
Of the tangles of disaster

Ladies and gentlemen its time to unveil
If this is the moment now to ask "do we dare?"

If we say that (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If it's a game, well? (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If we survive this (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
So delegate it! (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out

Turning our nightlights on in the daytime to scare
If this is the moment now to ask "do we dare?"

If we say that (WE WANT IT)
If we say that (WE WANT IT)
If we say that (WE WANT IT)
If we say that (WE WANT IT, WE WANT IT)

If we say that (WE WANT IT)
If it's a game, well? (WE WANT IT)
If we survive this (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If we say that (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If it's a game, well?(WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
If we survive this (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out
So delegate it! (WE WANT IT)
We only want it with the lights out

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Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance)

Ok, go
1, 2, 3, 4

Another night alone, a temporary dream
I came in through your window sleepwalking
Standing arm and arm, still so out of reach
Well, there's nowhere left to go
Stay with me, stay with me

Footsteps on the floor, your body's just a haze
In a rhythm of your own, [?]
Feeling my body swoon to hear you say my name
I've got nowhere left to dream
So I'll just stay awake, stay awake

At last, I'm found
Circle around
Last dance, it's no sound
Nowhere left to go, stay with me
Nowhere left to go, stay with me

Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Circle around
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Circle around
Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Circle around

At last, I'm found
Circle around
Last dance, it's no sound
Nowhere left to go, stay with me
Nowhere left to go, stay with me
Nowhere left to go, stay with me
Nowhere left to go, stay with me

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Tapedeck

This tapedeck you brought is physically smoldering
A road catalog of history frozen
These voices you call a bitter sweet morning
It must mean so much, this forgotten touch

It used to be fun, but we were young
Has-been dream, irreverent
It used to be fun, but we were young
This used to be fun, now we're in love

You set me up when you wake the ghost in me,
as you shake the ghost in me
You said enough to wake the ghost in me
No mistake, this ghost in me has found a home

I miss the breath and the dust
I seem ashamed to be broken
And here stands the cross
Our story got sorted

I won't sleep again til' I here it come to the end
I remember now, how it all turned out

It used to be fun, but we were young
I feel so bad, we were had
It used to be fun, but we were young
This used ot be fun, now we're in love

You set me up when you wake the ghost in me,
as you shake the ghost in me
You said enough to wake the ghost in me
No mistake, this ghost in me has found a home

Come in
Come in

This used to be fun, but we were young
This used to be fun, now we're in love
You set me up when you wake the ghost in me,
as you shake the ghost in me
You said enough to wake the ghost in me
No mistake, this ghost in me has found a home
You wake the ghost in me,
as you shake the ghost in me
You wake the ghost in me
No mistake, this ghost in me has found a...

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Latchkey Kids

You keep dancing around
What you want so bad
Please concentrate, hear me out
You might get caught but if you want
You can keep your fingers crossed

We're outside and free from all tethers
So get off the floor if you're under the weather
C'mon
The Latchkey kids have all come together
So unlock the door, it'll make you feel better
C'mon

We've been sneaking around
But we do it lightly
No more middle school tongues
If you show up unarmed
Be still our beating hearts

We're outside and free from all tethers
So get off the floor if you're under the weather
What's in store is not so unusual
The latchkey kids have all come together
So unlock the door, it'll make you feel better
If it's not flesh and blood that leads you on honey
Then unlock the door
Unlock the door and move on

Be still, our beating hearts
Keep your fingers crossed

You keep dancing around
What you want so bad, bad

We're outside and free from all tethers
So get off the floor if you're under the weather
What's in store is not so unusual
The latchkey kids have all come together
So unlock the door, it'll make you feel better
If it's not flesh and blood that leads you on honey
Then unlock the door and move on

So get off the floor if you're under the weather
And unlock the door

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Ragamuffin

Here, on the summit we cry
Tears down the mountain side
Waves, crashing over the roads
And down to bury our home
Enough to bury our home

Then, as the years flew by
And all the water dried
There, I saw you dancing alone
On everything we own
Dancing alone

Hey, you sing in youthful notes
You're wearing different clothes
Should we hesitate?
When you shake the ground
With our voices so loud
It's how we operate

Hey, you sing in youthful notes
You're wearing different clothes
Should we hesitate?
We can shake the ground
With our voices so loud
It's how we operate

Fighting fires with water guns
This ragamuffin has swallowed enough
(enough, enough, swallowed enough)
(enough, enough, swallowed enough)

Flags are down, speed trials are done
The engine has failed and there's nowhere to run
(Run, run, nowhere to run)
(Run, run, nowhere to run)

Covered your tracks, so how would you know
This ragamuffin wants to follow you home?
(Home, home, follow you home)
(Home, home, follow you home)
(Home, home, follow you home)

Let's speed away, like it's our lives on the line

Hey, you sing in youthful notes
You're wearing different clothes
Should we hesitate?
We can shake the ground
With our voices so loud
It's how we operate...

Should we hesitate...

It's how we operate
We operate
We operate
We operate

Hey, they're on the side of the road
You've got a ways to go

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The Wild Kind

I feel your head exploding
And now I hear you mourning
For a world of never knowing
To nights of stepping out of line
With the wild kind

I see your body glowing
It's not so easy to define
The wild kind

A spirit overflowing
Your secret, it starts growing
A world of whistleblowing
Is something to leave far behind
If you don't mind

I see the cannons loading
I stay and fight
for the wild kind

You're not the type to pass us by
We ask you, do you feel alive?
You're not the type to keep this a lie
We ask you, do you feel alive?
You're not the type to stand aside
We ask you, do you feel alive?

You're not the type to pass us by
We ask you, do you feel alive?

You're not the type to keep this a lie
We ask you, do you feel alive?

You're not the type to stand aside
We ask you, do you feel alive?

I see the cannons loading
Let's stay and fight
for the wild kind
The wild kind

Let's stay and fight
for the wild kind