Suburbia Overture - Greetings from Mary Bell Township! - Culture - Love Me, Normally
[00:15.76] White picket fences
[00:19.04] Barbed wire and trenches
[00:21.29] Trick or treat. Merry Christmas
[00:24.05] Howdy neighbor. Thank you Jesus
[00:27.30] What is he building in that painted lady
[00:33.09] A participation trophy wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby
[00:39.11] Wide-eyed and wired
[00:41.60] The snap-crackle-pop of the Geiger
[00:44.62] Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers
[00:47.37] You elbow the jukebox and sing "Duck and Cover"
[00:50.38] And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and Pfizer
[00:56.15] It don't look like survival, but buy now or die
[01:01.16] Suburbia
[01:06.42] You're not alone
[01:12.70] The lights are on
[01:17.72] But no one's home
[01:20.74] So, welcome home
[01:25.00] Meyers-Briggs, OK-ULTRA
[01:27.75] Takes a village to fake a whole culture
[01:30.75] Your ear to the playground, your eye on the ball
[01:33.51] Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall
[01:36.53] Home is where the heart is
[01:39.27] You ain't homeless, but you're heartless
[01:42.29] It's the safest on the market
[01:45.04] But you still gotta watch where you park it
[01:48.07] So give me your half-life crisis
[01:50.57] I can tell that you know where paradise is
[01:53.08] Where parasites don't care what your blood type is
[01:56.09] Only pheromones and serotonin decide
[01:59.10] If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard
[02:04.86] Everyone knows that nobody knows that
[02:07.61] Everybody's all up in my, everybody's all up in my
[02:10.39] Everybody's all up in my business
[02:12.39] Suburbia
[02:17.15] Where you belong
[02:23.16] The lights are on
[02:27.93] But no one's home
[02:30.69] So, welcome home
[02:37.22] Chameleon peacocks are talk of the town
[02:41.73] Well word gets around on
[02:43.24] Hit Number Stations
[02:46.00] He comes radiation
[02:48.76] The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream
[02:57.02] Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15
[03:14.62] I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails
[03:19.38] I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail
[03:23.65] Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill
[03:27.66] Smile and wave, boys. Kiss the cook
[03:29.66] Live laugh and love. Please pass the pills
[03:31.92] It's only culture. It's only culture
[03:36.18] It's only culture – sulfur, smoke, and soot
[03:41.43] You learned to torture house cats. Like vultures
[03:45.71] You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy
[03:48.47] Pulled the trigger with your foot to prove you've got
[03:50.98] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[03:54.73] So why apologize for being blue and cold
[03:59.75] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:03.27] So don't apologize for being blue and cold
[04:16.32] It's only culture. It's only culture. It's only
[04:23.35] Culture's not your friend
[04:24.85] Hey, fuck your culture. I ain't got no culture
[04:29.12] It's only culture, and it's more afraid of you than you are of it
[04:33.14] Go on, drink that
[04:34.13] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:37.90] So why apologize when you turn blue and cold
[04:42.92] Blood. Didn't they want your blood
[04:46.43] So don't apologize for being blue and cold
[04:51.69] Were you Nabokov to a Salinger
[04:55.70] Were you Jung to Freud or Dass to a Leary
[04:59.72] Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author
[05:04.23] You don't make the rules, you just write them down and
[05:06.75] Do it by the book you throw around
[05:09.00] Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn
[05:14.54] Going against the grain and catching splinters
[05:19.07] You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers treasure map
[05:24.33] The ink upon on your jigsaw piece traces you back to your fingerprints
[05:30.61] Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, and die
[05:36.12] The Lord looked down, said, "hey, you're only mortal"
[05:41.40] Giveth and taketh away 'till things come out a certain way
[05:46.42] Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal
[05:51.19] Leave you wondering why they can't have just been normal
