I Wanted To Be Wrong

album: around the sun

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you know where i come from

you know what i feel

you're yul brenner westworld

reporting from the field.

i threw it into reverse,

made a motion to repeal.

you kicked my legs from under me,

and tried to take the wheel.

[01:36.87]i told you i wanted to be wrong,

[01:40.80]but everyone is humming a song

[03:08.47]that i don't understand.

now i know that the sun has shined on my side of the street.

the basket of america, the weevils and the wheat.

the milk and honeyed congregation, scrubbed and apple-cheeked

salute apollo 13 from the rattle jewelry seats.

mythology's seductive and it turned a trick on me

that i have just begun to understand.

that i don't understand.

the rodeo is staged, gold circle goat-ropers and clowns.

a rumble in the third act, tie 'em up and burn 'em down.

we're armed to the teeth, born a little breech;

blue-plate special analysts, cells and suv's

we can't approach the allies 'cause they seem a little peeved

and speak a language we don't understand.

i told you i wanted to be wrong

but everyone is humming a song

storm into the boardroom of the conquering elite.

did you recognize the madman who is shouting in the streets?

destroy the things that i don't understand

destroy the things that i don't understand.

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