The Dismemberment Plan - Change (2001)

The Dismemberment Plan - Change

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there are times when you will not like the sound of my voice
there are days when a warm look from a strange face will make me forget my name
there'll be nights when you wonder where the party's at now
and you wonder why you never split this beat scene when a higher life awaits
there'll be days when you don't know how you picked the wrong life
in a second when it's over in our own minds -- and it's gone without a sound
there are fights that'll hear things that we know we don't mean
and we say 'em 'cos we don't know what we both want and we can't get to the other side

there are years that'll fly like wind across a flood plain

unaware of its own weight, free of friction, and immune to its own speed

there are weeks that'll crawl like slugs across a hot road

only moving 'cos it just don't know how to stop on a search for god knows what

and there are songs that'll make your skull ring like a dropped cup

resonating with the reasons why you worked through -- and the reasons why you stayed

for the long nights when you found a new resolve that i never knew was there

for the cold eye and the warm embrace now

for the righteous vibe that i need like the air i breathe

there are times when you'll think you've got my funny number figured out

there'll be days when I don't feel like i ever knew you all that well

and there are lines, drawn around, behind, above and over everyone

in an effort to figure out the place and time, the right, the wrong, the yours,

the mine, and i'll be damned if I feel like I will ever know anything

but if don't keep moving on that last hill,
we'll never know what's on the other side

-The Dismemberment Plan; The Other Side

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Not a lot that I need to say about this because it speaks for itself. Some of the most poignant lyrics from one of the best albums by one of the most inventive, interesting and downright awesome indie bands ever. Travis Morrison has a fantastic, very funny and heartfelt storyteller-esque lyrical style and delivers some absolute gems here. Get.

The Dismemberment Plan - Change