You worship the sun and you're aching for change
But you keep starving your heart
You used to have sisters, you don't anymore
You worship the sun
But you keep feeding the dark
And I'm out in the yard with my son and my daughter
And the sky is all black and I think we should start running...
Running from the water
And everybody's yelling, yelling that they're coming
But I don't see a single soul
They're all so busy yelling, not one of them is hearing
The hissing from the bottom of the boat
I got some feelings up my sleeve, I got a compass in my arm
I got a needle in my heart, it's gonna tell us where we are
South by south west, two miles from town
I can't get out, I can't look down
If you can hear, if you're around
I'm over here, I'm over here
I'm watching everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
You worship the sun, but the moon's in the way
So get your armaments out
She's always looking for trouble
She's gonna get what's been coming to her
She's switching the tides
and we can't have that shit around
The television they're blaring out a warning:
That our natural state is drowning
That our natural state is burning
And you're trying to help, and you're clicking for change
And you're calling it out, and you're adding your name
And you're marching for peace, but you're lynching the bitch
That got up in your face. How else they gonna to take it seriously?
South by south west, two miles from town
I can't get out, I can't look down
If you can hear, If you're around
I'm over here, I'm over here
I'm watching everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
And your body is a temple, and the temple is a prison
And the prison's overcrowded, and the inmates know it's flooding
And the body politic is getting sicker by the minute
And the media's not fake, it's just very
Inconvenient
Do you ever feel like this should be officially the end?
And that you should be the one to do the ending but you can't?
Do you feel like everyone is slowly letting go
Do you ever feel that... that incredibly alone?
And they're saying not to panic, and it's like a broken record
As if anybody knows what that is
And they're saying that we'll manage, it's the hottest one on record
And they're saying that that's just the way it is
Now I can taste it coming, I can taste it with my tongue
And my children are so heavy, but I pick them up and run
And I know I'll have to swim soon, when the water gets too high
I'll keep on holding them above me, I'll keep on holding them and crying
South by south west, two miles from town
I can't get out, I can't look down
If you can hear, if you're around
I'm over here, I'm over here, I'm watching
Everyone I love
Everyone I love
Everyone I love
Drowning in the sound
You worship the sun and you're aching for change
But you keep starving your heart
You used to have sisters, you don't anymore. You worship the sun
But you keep feeding the dark
