Parquet Courts - Content nausea
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I don't feel like tabbing out the slow part with the open E chord, so just listen for the timing, it's not that
hard.
E* A E
e|--7----5---0---|
B|--9----5---0---|
G|--9----6---1---|
D|--9----7---2---|
A|--7----7---2---|
E|-------5---0---|
( E* - A - ) x4
E*Content nausea, World War Four, seems like it all Acame too soon
E*Another carnage apparatus, such a disappAointing doom
E*I've used money, I've used drugs, Abuse body, aAbuse mind
E*People use such strange excuses, always have done, Ano clue why
E*Most folks think and some folks know, life's lived least when you Adon't let go
E*Of a memory, of a dream, like an hometown Abetter seen
E*On a screen or at a distance, life lived best withouAt resistance
E*People clicked and people read, 'Modern Life' is wAhat it said
E*Pretty pictures, pretty lives, I peered into Aonce or twice
E*I'll go back but not today, it's nice to visit but it's Ahard to stay
E*In the grips of bad dimension, too much data, tooA much tension
E*Too much plastic, too much glass, life lived least when when Afears are passed
E*My friend he won't leave his home, says "I am a bonfirAe of human bones."
E*I am a bonfire of human bones, I am a bonfire of Ahuman bones
~ ~ (repeat A - E -) ~ ~
And am I under some spell?
And do my thoughts belong to me?
Or just some slogan I ingested to save time?
This night is missing people
The sea, it had no-one
Hardly no-one, it had shapes, it had light
Some were flashing, most moved
Me, I couldn't look away
But still no-one came or left they just stayed
But they weren't there in the first place
Overpopulated by nothing, crowded by a sparseness
Guided by darkness, too much, not enough
Content, that's what you'd call it
An infant screaming in every room in your gut
Bets strum on an intention but best left unattended
How gathered the pixels in the dust of the digital age to our being
With what do I wash?
Put on some music
My friend walks the same path every day
Steep the stairwell, cognizance to coma
Ignoring best he can
An inconvenient reality
The consequential chore that unfolds in the naked sprint from screen to screen
Scrolling binary ghettos for escape for reminders
And this would be a good idea to free poets
From the back padding dungeons of content and comments
To free artists from empty and vulgar broadcasting ritual
For this year it became harder to be tender
Harder and harder to remember
Meeting a friend, writing a letter
Being lost, antique ritual
All lost to the ceremony of progress
Like the sensual organs removed
They're only weighing you down, you didn't need them
Ignore this part, it's an advertisement
These people are famous, I'd trust them
Protesters stayed home this time around
Some enlisted, some never heard the first shots
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
E*Well I've been north and I've been south, I've been west and AI've been east
E*Been around long enough to know, life's lived best when sAcrolling least
E*Just a broken piece of plastic, just another Anew device
E*Just another nervous habit, one more thing you hAave to buy
E*Just one more thing to replace, one more way to bAlock your face
E*Too much data, too much tension, life's lived least when lAess is mentioned
E*Wasting dollars, wasting hours, wasting talent with Awasted power
E*No one says it but it's known, the more connected, Athe more alone
E*My friend stays at the home in the dark, never walks up Ato the park
E*Always nauseous, always tired, I am a landmine, Awrong supplier
E*I am a landmine