Motion Without Meaning - Thrice

What a beautiful way to fake it

A sort of graceful defeat

We pound a pattern out on the pavement

We sound the siren out through the streets

Advance with perfect nonchalance

To the staccato of the rifle report

Don’t marvel at our confidence

It’s just bravado that a blindfold affords

You tell me that you wanna stop the war

But baby, you can’t dance if there’s no floor

Motion isn’t meaning

It’s just another drug

But it’s all we’ve got…

What a way to keep it together

A black box, a prescription for speed

We found a freeway that goes on forever

We drown the demon in the deep black sea

Shield your eyes

Keep running to the rhythm of the rifle repeating

Paralyzed

But I gotta keep movin' if I wanna keep breathing

You tell me that you wanna stop the war

But baby, you can’t dance if there’s no floor

Motion isn’t meaning

It’s just another drug

But it’s all we’ve got… we’ve got nowhere to go

I’ll take the knife or the easy chair

We are but gods for a moment

I’ll take the knife or the easy chair

We are but gods