
Date of issue: 11.09.2005
Record label: Creature
Song language: English
Chicago Institute |
Way back there an explosion of hope |
Hit out hard in a furnace of steel |
I thought life was a fire |
I thought life was a high time |
(I thought life was a fire) |
I thought life was a symbol |
(I thought life was for livin) |
I thought life was for livin |
(I thought life was a symbol) |
I thought life was a fire |
There’s an institute in Chicago |
With a room full of machines |
And they live this side of the sunrise |
And burn away your dreams |
Once you fly to Chicago — in Chicago you will die |
When that institute in Chicago has recorded you and I There’s an empty house in California |
But they’ll always let you in And they’ll make you feel oh so easy |
Like you never learned to sin |
Oh yeah that’s how they made it how they made it seem so clear |
Yes that empty house in California is our brave new world’s machine |
At the institute in Chicago from the first day you were born |
Oh they just can tell what your feelin |
And they can’t see how you’re torn |
When your name’s just a number — just a number you will die |
Cos that institute in Chicago never knew you were alive |
Way back there a reflection of me Turned my head in a circle of time |
I thought life was for living (living) |
I thought life was a high time (high time) |
I thought life was a fire (fire) |
I thought life was a symbol (symbol) |
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