I was just a dreamer, I was told “You grow up to die, and son, if you walk like the rest of them you might get lucky and find someone to fry out in the sun with, have your shoes melt, so you’re stuck there all your life.”
As long as I’m by your side.
Looking for believers, every day I’m digging graves. Yeah, all the dead people laughing at the ones still here trying to make it through the maze. I hope you’re happy on that bed of thorns, yeah, you sure got it made.
We’re not the same, we’re not the same, we’re not the same.
But if you look up, you’ll see the footprints of those walking down the line.
Look down at your hands, how they’re red and they’re tied.
But don’t look back on this now, chasing ghosts in your mind,
Singing why god, oh why god, oh why?
Searching for the answer to the question that had raised you from the ground up to the sky when you decided not to stay – and even though you don’t have any time for flower talk or pain,
I suppose we’re all just caught in heavy rain.
And I’m fighting hard to see, but passing out behind the wheel that spins inside my head all day, but it just ran out, and I gotta reel in all the line I cast to get me home to you tonight.
Cause we’re alive, cause we’re alive, cause we’re alive.
Reach inside the TV, all I ever find is dirt. I’d say goodbye to your friends cause you’re gonna leave them when life decides to hurt those things that kept you on your feet will soon now bring to your knees and then you’re gone.
And I’m not there to sing along.
In fact I don’t know the words.
How did we used to be so well rehearsed?
So now I sing these songs so I can carry on long after everyone forgets the verse.
I look around to all those people who are standing by my side,
Yeah, our feet on the ground and we’re not trying to hide,
From that devil on my back trying to take what is mine,
Singing why god, oh why god, oh why?
An EP recorded in response to the US election finds Dre Babinski further developing the haunting ballads of 2016's "Under the Influence." Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 13, 2017