Nothing Left to Believe in Down Here

from Skydiving in the Bermuda Triangle! by The Reptiles

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Let's reinvent the impossibility of everything
Let's turn our backs on all the lives we've been trying to lead in outer space

Wave after wave of dead souls crashing against the same shore
They tear and fray in the bitterness of realities we've seen before

Don't talk to me about real life, I'm just waiting here to tear this all down
I've seen too many lives getting tangled up in their own futile attempts

Don't talk to me about the future
It's too fragile, the threat is too near
Let's drink in the popular neurosis and admit that
There's nothing left to believe in down here

And you deny me any right to fulfill the tensions I've seen
And you defy all the higher planes, is anything as real as it seems?

When time dissipates, our anger and lust will wash out to sea
And time will create and it will catch fire in the wake of what is to be

Suicide becoming so practical on a dying planet living on lightning rods
As we turn against our frozen alternatives we see the failings of the flesh
And turn our back on our gods

Chemical reactions exploding in my brain
As you close your eyes and insist your gods have disappeared
The neurotic contagion is spinning through the crowds
And there's nothing left to believe in down here

Let's reinvent the impossibility of everything
Let's turn our backs on all the lives we've been trying to lead in outer space

When time dissipates, our anger and lust will wash out to sea
And time will create, though it may never catch fire in the wake of what is to be

Suicide, the obvious question on a dying planet living on lightning rods
We turn against ourselves, having seen the failed flesh
And turned our back on our gods

Don't talk to me about the future
It's too fragile, the threat is too near
This is the popular neurosis, admit that
There's nothing left to believe in down here

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from Skydiving in the Bermuda Triangle!, released November 10, 2017
All songs performed by The Reptiles
All music written by The Reptiles
All lyrics written by Kristofer Kempton

Cover drawings, title and logo by Kristofer Kempton
Layout by Randy Michaud for FrameWerks Graphics:
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