The Sad Story of Lead and Astatine

歌詞

Lead is a plentiful and highly useful element of great stability and strength. Astatine is highly unstable, unpredictable and so unreliable as to not exist long enough to actually be held in one's hand... I lose a friend again, it isn't hard I thought I'd got past all that playground yard stuff But in the end there's always that small matter of pride... It gets so strong you know, gets in your head like caffeine in the morning Your blood is boiling and you're shaking now And all those things you said don't matter anyhow but you persist! You rationalise, and justify I am a loser of time, I keep waiting for it Catching me up on the downside of a word that I might regret. And you? Well, you're just the same! And we haven't picked the phone up in months now Stubborn silence like an empty carrier on the shortwave band No one listening and nothing planned We have no audience for our silence And the years will pass by, there'll be no applause, There'll be no encores or victory laps this time There'll be no vote, there'll be no eviction Just the humdrum... that truth is stranger than fiction Let's go flying, take some photos! Play some music, I really miss that now! But if I thought that everything I said WAS wrong Would that make a difference - I know! - I'll put it in a song! But in the end I'll just put my own point of view... to you... ... And that's how we got here! I am a loser in time, I keep waiting for it It's passing me by in the search of an answer to a word that I might regret It could be over - in moments! Like never said! Words taken back and recycled The old ones left for dead But we keep on shouting although there's nothing left to say And every hour that passes adds up to a wasted day When we could do the things that we love - together And the years will pass by, there'll be no applause, There'll be no encores or victory laps this time There'll be no vote, there'll be no eviction Just the humdrum... that truth is stranger than fiction Let's go flying, take some photos! Play some music, I really miss that now! And the years will pass by and no one will care about The things that made us laugh They might smile once in a while as they tuck us in Because if we don't talk now, then it will be gone Like the water underneath the bridge Where we once...