Consequence of Sounds-Regina Spektor

[00:11.98]My rhyme ain't good just yet [00:13.48]My brain and tongue just met [00:14.67]And they ain't friends so far [00:15.91]My words don't travel far [00:17.54]They tangle in my hair [00:18.67]And tend to go nowhere [00:20.10]They grow right back inside [00:21.35]Right past my brain and eyes [00:23.04]Into my stomach juice [00:23.85]Where they don't serve much use [00:25.90]No healthy calories [00:27.15]Nutrition values [00:28.90]And I absorb back in [00:30.27]The words right through my skin [00:31.90]They sit there festering inside my bowels [00:34.71]The consonants and vowels [00:40.68]The consequence of sounds [00:46.18]The consonants and vowels [00:52.30]The consequence of sounds [00:57.18]Got a soundtrack in my mind [00:59.05]All the time Kids [01:00.24]Screaming from too much beat up [01:01.68]And they don't even rhyme [01:02.74]They just stand there on a street corner [01:04.49]Skin tucked in and meat side out and shot [01:06.30]And I'd like to turn them down [01:07.74]But there ain't no knob [01:08.69]Run into picket fences [01:09.69]Not into picket lines [01:11.38]All this hippie **** for the 60's [01:12.95]And another clich for our time [01:14.33]But a one of these days your heart [01:16.07]Will just stop ticking [01:17.01]And they sorta just don't find you till your cubicle is reeking [01:21.09]The consonants and vowels [01:26.97]The consequence of sounds [01:32.65]The consonants and vowels [01:38.47]The consequence of sounds [02:07.32]Did you know that the gravedigger's still [02:09.25]Getting stuck in the machine [02:10.69]Even tough it's a whole other daydream [02:13.25]It's another town it's another world [02:15.32]Where the kids are asleep where the loans are paid [02:17.82]And the lawns are mowed [02:18.94]Whad'ya think all the gravediggers were gone [02:21.13]Just cause one song is done [02:23.07]There's always another one [02:24.63]Waiting right around the bend [02:26.44]Till this one ends [02:27.44]Then it begins [02:28.32]Sqeaky clean then it starts all over again [02:30.82]The weather report keeps on [02:32.76]Tossing and turning [02:33.57]Predicting and warning [02:35.00]And warning and warning of [02:36.69]Possibly it could be news publications and [02:39.06]Possibly it could be news TV stations That [02:43.01]Very same morning right next to her coffee [02:45.82]She noticed some bleeding [02:47.36]And heard hollow coughing and [02:48.69]National Geographic was being too graphic [02:51.57]When all she had wanted to know was the traffic [02:54.63]The worlds got a nosebleed it said [02:56.94]And we're flooding but we keep on cutting [02:59.44]The trees and the forests [03:00.88]We keep on paying those freaks on the TV [03:03.44]Who claim they will save us but want to enslave us [03:07.01]Sweating like demons they scream through our speakers [03:09.81]But we leave the sound on cause silence is harder [03:12.75]And no one's the killer and no one's the martyr [03:16.01]The world that has made us can no longer contain us [03:19.45]And profits are silent then rotting away cause [03:26.48]The consonants and vowels [03:31.29]The consequence of sounds [03:37.23]The consonants and vowels [03:43.11]The consequence of sounds [04:12.58]My rhyme ain't good just yet [04:14.21]My brain and tongue just met [04:15.52]And they aint friends so far [04:17.15]My words don't travel far [04:18.40]They tangle in my hair [04:19.84]And tend to go nowhere [04:21.39]They grow right back inside [04:22.83]Right past my brain and eyes [04:24.52]Into my stomach juice [04:25.96]Where they don't serve much use [04:27.59]No healthy calories [04:28.96]Nutrition values use [04:30.52]And I absorb back in [04:31.96]The words right through my skin [04:33.58]They sit there festering inside my bowels [04:36.59]The consonants and vowels [04:42.71]The consequence of sounds [04:48.71]The consonants and vowels [04:54.71]The consequence of sounds