Empty Lives - Graham Parker

[00:00.61]Empty Lives - Graham Parker
[00:01.29]Written by：Graham Parker
[00:13.05]I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire
[00:16.17]Another moment that flashes into nowhere
[00:19.25]A brand name on a pill that get's you there
[00:22.57]Uh uh
[00:24.84]I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion
[00:28.1]The past ain't even worth livin' in
[00:31.13]It's just a nail that keeps being driven in
[00:40.56]I'm cold-blooded and completely relaxed
[00:43.31]I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts
[00:46.32]On the up escalator going down all the cracks
[00:49.39]Yeah
[00:50.19]Uh uh
[00:52.45]You are the dummies of another frightened nation
[00:55.16]I am a candidate for elevation
[00:58.01]But when I woke up this morning I'd lost sensation
[01:03.33]All sensation
[01:05.91]So get them
[01:07.52]Get him
[01:09.47]But don't get me
[01:11.45]Uh uh uh
[01:12.479996]Can't hear
[01:13.81]Your cries
[01:15.69]So don't get me to fill up your empty lives
[01:23.19]Empty lives
[01:26.13]Your empty lives
[01:29.28]Empty lives
[01:33.479996]I'll be obedient there is no escape
[01:36.31]Forms to fill time to kill love death and rape
[01:39.479996]Sleep baby sleep don't let nothing awaken you
[01:43.3]Uh uh
[01:45.21]Don't look for tomorrow it's given you the slip
[01:48.08]That's all contained on a silicon chip
[01:50.92]I'm losing shape for the eighties
[01:52.79]Feeling everybody's grip slip
[01:56.130005]Everybody's grip slip
[01:58.880005]So get them
[02:00.46]Get him
[02:02.38]But don't get me
[02:04.4]Uh uh uh
[02:05.41]Can't hear
[02:06.75]Your cries
[02:08.66]So don't get me to fill up your empty lives
[02:16.08]Empty lives
[02:20.05]Just there waiting to be filled
[02:23.01]With someone else's stronger will
[02:26.24]Just can't reason to survive
[02:29.41]With empty empty
[02:32.08]You got the empty empty
[02:35.2]You got the empty empty
[02:38.26]Empty lives
[02:41.62]Yeah
[03:04.55]Bring me water bring me cocaine
[03:07.34]Bring me something lethal
[03:08.72]Something that leaves a stain
[03:10.38]But please don't make me feel that emptiness again
[03:14.16]Feel that emptyness again
[03:17.7]So get them
[03:19.37]Get him
[03:21.26]But don't get me
[03:23.19]Uh uh uh
[03:24.28]Get fat it's your size
[03:27.54001]But don't get me to fill up your empty
[03:31.0]Don't get me to fill up your empty
[03:34.0]Don't get me to fill up your empty lives
[03:42.68]Your empty lives
[03:45.76]Your empty lives
[03:49.02]Your empty lives
[03:52.49]Don't get me
[03:55.51]Don't get me
[03:58.55]Don't get me
[04:01.62]Don't get me
[04:04.85]Don't get me
[04:06.22]To fill up your empty lives
[04:07.95]Don't get me
[04:09.22]To fill up your empty lives
[04:11.1]Don't get me
[04:12.32]To fill up your empty lives
[04:14.15]Don't get me
[04:15.55]To fill up your
[04:17.52]Don't get me
[04:18.54]To fill up
[04:20.36]Don't don't get me
[04:23.01]Your empty lives
[04:25.53]Don't don't don't get me
[04:29.6]Don't get me
[04:32.66998]Don't get me
[04:35.81]Don't get me
[04:38.81]Don't get me
[04:40.02]To fill up your empty lives
[04:41.84]Don't get me
[04:43.0]To fill up your empty lives
[04:44.98]Don't get me
[04:46.13]To fill up your empty lives
[04:48.07]Don't get me
[04:49.19]To fill up your empty lives
[04:51.13]Don't get me
[04:53.02]To fill up your empty lives
[04:56.41]To fill up your empty lives