Something I Should Do-Nada Surf

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Daniel Lorca/Ira Elliot/Matthew Caws [00:32.883] My headphones are playing duet [00:36.403] With a fire engine [00:40.423] I walk through the cloud of an ex [00:43.426] And I feel no tension [00:47.237] All the buildings are blocking the wind [00:51.123] Of late October [00:54.479] 'Round the corner, it shoots out again [00:58.216] And I'm starting over [01:00.545] Dance, dance [01:04.146] Dance, dance around the door [01:09.191] Dance, dance [01:12.857] Dance, dance around the door [01:18.590] Hold still [01:21.006] Limit what you see [01:23.836] Be free for a while [01:25.970] Lie in room like you're lying on a hill [01:29.445] There's a mountain on your window sill [01:33.286] There is help for raw souls [01:37.929] A language for the shy [01:41.028] You don't have to say hello [01:45.391] But look them in the eye [01:48.602] Two things, a great fog of stuff, engrossing, fleeting, bewildering [01:52.731] And then, a feeling of tilt that we're rushing down a slope [01:55.741] Do we not see it all the time because we're sliding at the same speed? [01:58.795] A sense of safety preserved by the static distance between us [02:02.366] Sometimes I try to imagine a village hundred of years ago [02:05.111] Where little changes during a lifetime [02:06.923] Maybe the cobbler tries a new heel on a boot, crops are rotated [02:10.305] But nothing changes how people are [02:12.061] What they spend their time doing or thinking about [02:13.566] The world is dying, the world is living [02:30.841] There's something that I should do [02:33.318] But I never know how [02:38.234] Things I should say to you [02:41.041] But it's total whiteout [02:44.364] In the night reading actual air [02:48.076] Always reforming [02:52.338] Imagine that I'll be somewhere new [02:56.192] In the morning [02:58.817] I was asked to write a song about social media [03:00.947] And I didn't want to anyway I'm pretty hooked [03:02.794] So don't feel I'm in much of a position to critique it [03:04.734] And self-critique is loaded for me anyway [03:07.139] Because I've done plenty of that [03:08.304] And while I know that people can identify with it [03:10.308] And get comfort from hearing someone else [03:12.365] Address themselves sternly [03:13.657] I'm also trying to get away from self-regard in general [03:15.868] Even though the unexamined life is not worth living [03:18.455] More opposing truths, they're everywhere [03:20.527] Still training to to hold them [03:21.884] I'm trying to look out [03:22.962] Leave the mirror out of it [03:24.021] See the tree and contemplate it [03:25.560] And not question who or what I am in a relation to the tree [03:27.906] But I don't know what it means yet [03:29.570] That we are partially migrating into a silent conversation [03:32.069] That seems to be increasing unity and tribalism at once [03:34.966] And maybe the two are racing now without a finish line [03:37.821] I was going to say that likely few got good thinking [03:40.673] Done during the seventeenth century Dutch tulip craze [03:43.080] And this is not so different [03:44.276] But I've recently been heartened and disappointed to learn [03:46.517] That story was greatly exaggerated [03:48.352] Anyway we're crazy but also we're not crazy we're complicated [03:51.669] We want things to be simple [03:53.140] And we polarize into camps and we harden and entrench [03:55.828] And distort and amplify and shut down and entrench some more [03:59.155] Now you don't have to join a drum circle [04:00.873] And get all peace and love and Haight-Ashbury [04:02.872] And anyway that took [04:03.476] Only a few months to turn into a bad scene, hard drug, dystopia [04:06.872] Where some people will rob you [04:08.663] And you can't be too open but the [04:10.220] Hippies sure had a point [04:11.386] Empathy is good, lack of empathy is bad [04:13.441] And now the lines of non-facts waiting to get in the conversation [04:16.868] Are longer and longer [04:18.155] And some people can't be beat in an argument [04:20.243] We have to hold to that hippie point harder [04:22.139] Empathy is good, lack of empathy is bad [04:24.716] Holy math says we're never not together