Suburbia Overture - Greetings from Mary Bell Township! - Culture - Love Me, Normally
[00:15.63] White picket fences
[00:19.13] Barbed wire and trenches
[00:21.13] Trick or treat. Merry Christmas
[00:24.13] Howdy neighbor. Thank you Jesus
[00:27.38] What is he building in that painted lady
[00:33.13] A participation trophy wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby
[00:38.89] Wide-eyed and wired
[00:41.63] The snap-crackle-pop of the Geiger
[00:44.63] Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers
[00:47.38] You elbow the jukebox and sing "Duck and Cover"
[00:50.14] And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and Pfizer
[00:56.13] It don't look like survival, but buy now or die
[01:01.14] Suburbia
[01:06.38] You're not alone
[01:12.37] The lights are on
[01:17.63] But no one's home
[01:22.13] So, welcome home
[01:24.88] Meyers-Briggs, OK-ULTRA
[01:27.64] Takes a village to fake a whole culture
[01:30.63] Your ear to the playground, your eye on the ball
[01:33.64] Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall
[01:36.38] Home is where the heart is
[01:39.39] You ain't homeless, but you're heartless
[01:42.13] It's the safest on the market
[01:45.38] But you still gotta watch where you park it
[01:47.89] So give me your half-life crisis
[01:50.38] I can tell that you know where paradise is
[01:53.14] Where parasites don't care what your blood type is
[01:56.63] Only pheromones and serotonin decide
[01:59.13] If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard
[02:04.62] Everyone knows that nobody knows that
[02:07.63] Everybody's all up in my, everybody's all up in my
[02:10.38] Everybody's all up in my business
[02:12.12] Suburbia
[02:17.13] Where you belong
[02:23.38] The lights are on
[02:27.89] But no one's home
[02:30.89] So, welcome home
[02:37.13] Chameleon peacocks are talk of the town
[02:41.63] Well word gets around on
[02:43.38] Hit Number Stations
[02:46.12] He comes radiation
[02:48.88] The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream
[02:57.13] Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15
[03:14.87] I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails
[03:19.13] I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail
[03:23.39] Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill
[03:27.89] Smile and wave, boys. Kiss the cook
[03:29.64] Live laugh and love. Please pass the pills
[03:31.88] It's only culture. It's only culture
[03:36.38] It's only culture – sulfur, smoke, and soot
[03:41.39] You learned to torture house cats. Like vultures
[03:45.63] You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy
[03:48.39] Pulled the trigger with your foot to prove you've got
[03:50.89] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[03:54.88] So why apologize for being blue and cold
[03:59.39] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:03.38] So don't apologize for being blue and cold
[04:15.89] It's only culture. It's only culture. It's only
[04:23.39] Culture's not your friend
[04:24.63] Hey, fuck your culture. I ain't got no culture
[04:29.00] It's only culture, and it's more afraid of you than you are of it
[04:33.39] Go on, drink that
[04:34.14] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:37.88] So why apologize when you turn blue and cold
[04:42.64] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:46.50] So don't apologize for being blue and cold
[04:51.23] Were you Nabokov to a Salinger
[04:55.49] Were you Jung to Freud or Dass to a Leary
[04:59.75] Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author
[05:03.99] You don't make the rules, you just write them down and
[05:06.42] Do it by the book you throw around
[05:08.78] Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn
[05:14.27] Going against the grain and catching splinters
[05:19.03] You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers treasure map
[05:24.53] The ink upon on your jigsaw piece traces you back to your fingerprints
[05:31.04] Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, and die
[05:36.28] The Lord looked down, said, "hey, you're only mortal"
[05:41.53] Giveth and taketh away 'till things come out a certain way
[05:46.77] Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal
[05:51.54] Leave you wondering why they can't have just been normal
