AMERICAN STANDARDS LYRICS

Happiness Doesn't Sell

Materialize! The mass production of art. We're going nowhere, but getting there fast! Oblivious! We're begging for bargains! Oblivion! Discounting our dreams. Oblivious! We're trying to make sense, but we don't want the change, we don't want the change. Take what you want, leave the rest for the vultures to scavenge amongst the filth. We laid off everyone at the lighthouses, and now our shores are lined with shipwrecks. We've lost everything, and everyone, and now we're on our own. What good is this heart if it doesn't have a home? If music is the food of love, then we've heard every song. And we're starving and thirsting for more, but we got all the words wrong. We are gathered here today for the eulogy of a fallen friend. I can't scream these words any clearer, and I'm sick of trying to pretend. This is the death of music. We are the death of music. But if you ask me, it died long ago.

The Impossibilities Are Endless

Everything (Everything's) become a disaster
Everything (Everywhere) is going to get get worse
The Sirens Were Deafening
Don't close your eyes, don't look away
Sink before we swim, we're gunna sink before we swim
We've found contentment in the contrast of it all
As we're fed promises through lips sewn shut
We built this city and we'll tear it down
Till there ain't one damned thing around
Build on the back of a broken dream
On the back of a broken dream
We're gunna sink before we swim
Douse the truth in kerosene and watch it burn away
Watch it burn away!
Through the smoke and the flames we're reminded of it
And the promises made without intent to keep
We have nothing, nothing but the loads on our backs are much lighter
With this knowledge we've gained....
We will carry on

The Masks They Wear Resemble Human Beings

I'll sing songs of revolution
Yeah I'll sing songs of revolution
I'll sing songs of revolution
When there seems there's no solution
I'll sing songs of revolution





AMERICAN STANDARDS LYRICS