the bottle god’s forgotten gospel

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another weekend to never remember
another couple nights to file away in the wild places
let’s try our animal sides on for size
let’s fly right into the fire and die
it's time for the mind disasters

dress us up, saturday
decorate our vacant hazy faces
with fake life ablaze in the flashing blackness
dry our tired crying eyes
with the cloth of altered consciousness
open up our heads and deck the halls with alcohol

we dance because we drink
we drink because we live
we live because
we live because
we live because we have to
we're in a dance we didn't ask for

so dance, man with the white shirt, dance
toss your longsleeved arms
up and around and about like you’ve graduated life
go into all the world we’ve infected and
preach the bottle god’s forgotten gospel
i’ll watch you from my wild place
i’ll listen through my self-destruction
and i’ll believe every single word you say
it doesn’t matter
it has no meaning
i’m done dancing
you’re done dancing
we’re all done dancing
sunday stripped us down, and
it’s another weekend to never remember, and

hey
hey you
wake up
you gotta wake up
hey
i’m awake
what happened?
what’s going on?
where am i?
who am i?
we don’t know
nobody knows
we’ve all forgotten
we don’t remember what and where and
we don’t remember who you are
so you’re nobody
you’re nobody now
i'm nobody?
you’re nobody
i'm nobody

nemo sum
nemo sum

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