Buried by the Buzz / Carnival / Another Bag Of Bones - Kevin Devine

I got a sweet tooth sunk in a soft spot

That busts my jaw loose and makes my mouth rot

I caught a bad break, the same one you caught

That turned your hair white and choked your breath off

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I found gossip in the ivy that’s been swallowing my house

And I found bones in the foundation that I’m just picking out now

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I got a fistful of shattered seashells

That scream like soldiers stuck down an oil well

And I saw a bad sign lit up like Broadway

And I watched my head spin

And I heard my voice shake

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

So I found trouble in the ghost town that I’ve been building with my hands

But I found comfort in the snowstorm that I’ve been piling on my past

So I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb

I see symptoms of a sickness in every stranger on the street

And I see danger in the distances speeding straight for you and me

I’m buried by the buzz

I’m buried by the buzz

I’m buried by the buzz of a year gone

I quit the carnival

It moved next door

I thought I had enough

But I want more

So now I’m sneaking out at night

I paint my face and shine my shoes

Go where I’m not supposed to

'Cause I tamed a lion once

I stole his roar

I stripped his pride away

But he found more

So now he’s back to take what’s his

And shove my future in my face

Scare me back in my place

So soon, so soon

You’ve got it beat

'til it beats you

I left my flaming sword beside your bed

I woke to find it pressed against my neck

You wept «suggestion never works

So now I’m trying something else»

I shut my eyes, ho hum, oh well

I felt a feather fall, a tree trunk split

Inside my lion laughed, played violin

He said «Hey!

You should give up on your voice

Before we both end up destroyed»

I quit alright, he purred «Good boy»

So you believe anything

And we went and copped

You' fall for anyone

I said «N-n-n-n-no, see, that’s not exactly true

I only fell for you

I’d do whatever you asked me to»

You wake in the hospital

You’re in a thrift store suit

Hear your lover’s voice (fuck!) from the waiting room

So you shut your eyes and then you pray for peace

You think that I’m not here, you think that is not me

Is-is it something that I would do?

See I kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-kn-know the complicated truth

Was a make up mask and then a lion’s roar

A big top tent, a firey sword

But they’re not real, they never were

And soon she won’t be real either

This is the life you went and earned

Because you never fucking learn

And you could waste all of your years

Fixing the mess you’re making here

So as her nervous breath draws close

Her dress heels click off their approach

You clutch your chest, you whisper out

«No!

no!

what will I doooooo?

My love!

My love!"

You say «what will i do?»

You say «what will i do?»

«You'll wake up, just wake up!»

(whoah-oh, ohhh-oh)

(whoah-oh, ohhh-oh)

Uh-whoah-oh-oh, oh-uh-whoah-uh-oh-oh

Uh-whoah-oh-oh, oh-uh-whoah-uh-oh-oh

No, no, no, oh

No, no, no, you say to leave me here

Don’t leave me here

Don’t go, oh

Don’t go, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

No, no, no

It’s a brushfire spreading, feeding as it moves

It’s a disappeared glacier, it’s an airborne flu

It’s your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles

It’s your yawning conscious and your lawyer’s smile

It’s an occupied country, foaming at the mouth

No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud

A military mother with a boy in hell

And it’s a flag draped casket down an oil well

It’s an Argentine school girl, gagged and bound

It’s a torture camp, it’s a long way down

It’s the constant bracing shock of now

It’s the whole damn world turned inside out

All right

It’s not too hard to see

If you wake up and open your eyes

It’s a march to extinction with your God in step

It’s His name in your mouth, it’s His cross on your neck

Farm boy sprinting over desert dirt

And he’s panting the 'Our Father' in staccato spurts

Now that’s his automatic rifle and it tells no lies

That’s his truth in your stomach, it’s no alibi

But the trouble lies on the other side

With an equal truth prepping for his holy night

He sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky

He hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife

As he eases to the check point, he is calm and sure

It’s collateral damage, it’s the cost of war

It’s another bag of bones for the gods to sort

It’s another bag of bones for the gods to step up and sort

It’s the species disappearing, all the birds fly south

A January heat wave and a pulsing crowd

It’s an African militia, kids with submachines

It’s a conflict diamond on your bride to be

It’s the dispossessed lining up at every gate

It’s the facts worth facing, faced way too late

It’s the mission of modernity, go get what’s yours'

'Til there’s nothing leftover to get no more

It’s not what were owed but it’s what we’ve earned

It’s closer than we realized that it’s time now, to burn

Oh, It’s time now to burn

Oh and it’s time now to burn

Oh and it’s time now to burn

To burn (whoo!)