Everybody Shatter

[Intro]

A-Town ’81

Your seeds on the street just up and gone

It’s the same song

Downtown the air is bleak

Cut the South Side off and let it bleed

It’s the same song

On Osage in ’85

They’re sure enough gonna take you but not alive

It’s the same song

Got stopped in ‘21

But If they said your name, you might live on

It’s the same song

The white crow in 19-4

Said “they’re gonna bite back so that you don’t”

It’s the same song

They say "Oh lord, a man done gone"

14th and 5th, the flag flies on

It’s the same song

[Verse 1]

Shape and sound we forgot to fеar

Shut your eyes and shut your ears

Scrеam and shout, try to drown it out

But it won’t let you unhear it

Shape and sound we forgot to fear

Shut your eyes and shut your ears

We’ll revolve for a little while

But we all fall down in tears

[Pre-Chorus]

Dance, I wanna dance

I wanna dance into the after

Until it comes to pass and like broken glass

Everybody break down and shatter

I wanna dance, I wanna dance

I wanna dance into the after

Where everything you know and what you don’t

Really won’t even matter

[Chorus]

I say

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

We all crack trying to walk the line

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

And stay broke forever after

[Verse 2]

Clapping your hands and you’re stomping your feet, it's coming

It’s the beginning of the end that you see, it's coming

So leave your intentions if you’re strapped at the door

'Cause the first time that you shatter, there won’t be no more

[Pre-Chorus]

So let’s dance, I wanna dance

I wanna dance into the after

Until it comes to pass and like broken glass

Everybody breaks down and shatters

Dance, I wanna dance

I wanna dance into the after

Where everything you know and what you don’t

Really won’t even matter

[Chorus]

I say

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

We all crack trying to walk the line

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

And stay broke forever after

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

We all crack trying to walk the line

We shatter

We all fall, it’s a sign of the times

We shatter

And stay broke forever after

[Outro: Big Rube]

Too many of us shook

There are constructs put in place

Intent on throwing us off

Threaten the spiritual balance until our mental focus is lost

Overwhelming emotional challenges

Feeding dread and despair

Distraction to keep us from practicing things like active compassion

Starving love and feeding hate

Causing inhumane interactions

To breed separation, not unification

Because of humanity’s actions

This goes against our nature

Its inherently backwards

So we imprison ourselves

And don’t see we hold the key to the shackles

The answers to all our questions in life that tend to be overlooked

Lie within our grasp yet will continue to pass as long as we shook