BEAUTIFUL DEATH

Happy Early Earth Day everyone. I wanted to write something that sat with how strange it feels to watch everything change and just keep going to work. I want the song to feel like a hug, not one that makes everything better, but one that can acknowledge that shit is bad and give you the feeling that, while it's bad, we're not alone. ///*****/// Warm for December. Our chemical sky. A beautiful way For the colors to dry. You stay in the bed. We're drowning in debt. If the lease is up, It's a beautiful death. [Verse 1] Taking out a loan on a six foot plot of dirt. Paying off the grave while these lungs still work. Burying a fistful of cash in the yard, Like the banks are gonna open when the grid goes dark. What would you do when you feel that you're about to die? Because we're the kind of guys to nuke the moon right out the sky. Silent night, us two up on the roof and we watch the pieces fall like snowflakes we remember. It's a little [Chorus] Warm for December. Our chemical sky. A beautiful way For the colors to dry. You stay in the bed. We're drowning in debt. If the lease is up, It's a beautiful death. [Verse 2] Skip a stone across a river bed that don't remember water Pour the concrete on the crater for a Hilton and a car park Stock the gift shop, cardboard boxes, little pieces of the dark and Sell 'em two for twenty five beside the postcards. Buy a piece of what we lost. Put it on your shelf between the candle and the cross. It feels a little [Chorus] Warm for December. Our chemical sky. A beautiful way For the colors to dry. You stay in the bed. We're drowning in debt. If the lease is up, It's a beautiful death. [Verse 3] Raise a glass to the skyline we sold to the highest. Paint that shit till it's golden and tell 'em that it's priceless. Spray 'we were here' on the rubble like it's righteous. Write it deep in a contract that the people won't be reading. Tape the cracks in the ceiling and list it up for the leasing. Sell a flood as a venue, charge admission for the seating, Are you smiling 'cause you're happy or because somebody's watching? Is it warm for December or is that the ads running? We've been selling off the coastline before the tide stopped coming. Frame our wreckage, sell the prints, 'never forget,' and hang 'em in the hallway. Call it culture, call it anything but our fault. [Bridge] I don't want to leave, But I don't know how to stay. I don't want to leave, But I don't know how to stay. (I don't want to leave,) But I don't know how to stay. (I don't want to leave,) But I don't know.. [Outro] You stay in the bed. We're drowning in debt. I'm all in my head. Why can't it just end? If the lease is up, It's a beautiful death.