Obsolete Absolute - Joey Cape

Pleased to meet you in the grey

Swinging slowly in the hang

All together on the beat

New machines are coming primed

Seasons change and combine

Starving bees on dying vines

Revelations in your mind

Dark and then on fire

Obsolete, absolutely

Absolute, obsolete

I’m hanging by my testimony

I expire

All I’ve known

Obsolete, absolute

Running, running far behind

Faster, faster borrowed time

Heretics has lost its mind

We are undefined

Obsolete, absolutely

Absolute, obsolete

Hanging on, upon nostalgia

Antiquated

All we’ve known

Obsolete, absolute

Swinging men on a tree

Weighted bags of debris

Their survival contingent on their empathy

We aren’t anything but prey

All the tools taken away

All the words we used to say

Salutations, courtesies

Mama, papa, grazie

Mama, papa, save me

Obsolete, absolutely

Absolute, obsolete

Hanging on our testimonies

We expire

All we ever known

We’re not anything but prey

Obsolete, Absolute

Obsolete, Absolutely

Absolute, obsolete

Absolutely