Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Violence, artist - Parquet Courts. Album song Wide Awake!, in the genre ИндиDate of issue: 17.05.2018
Record label: Rough Trade
Song language: English
Violence |
| Violence is the fruit of unreached understanding that flowers from the lips of |
| scoundrels |
| It is a forest so dense and rooted in our past |
| It tempts us to become lost in its darkness |
| And stinks like the piss test you were forced to take |
| Just before you were told that you didn’t meet |
| The standards of integrity that this organization strives to maintain |
| Why are there no folk songs about ATM machines |
| That produce the likeness of the blazer of the trail of tears |
| Issuing overdraft fees from beyond the grave |
| Prison TV shows in an endless queue |
| Containing the robust nourishment of a commissary |
| This is why we cannot afford to close an open casket |
| You protect no one by obscuring the mirror that reflects our own problematic |
| reality |
| Allow me to ponder the role I play |
| In this pornographic spectacle of black death |
| At once a solution and a problem |
| A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret |
| Violence is daily life |
| A promise, a pact that the world never kept |
| Violence is daily life |
| A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret |
| Violence is daily life |
| A promise, a pact that the world never kept |
| Violence is daily life |
| Violence is daily life |
| Violence happens every day |
| It’s hard to get used to getting used to violence |
| Savage is my name because Savage is how I feel |
| When the radio wakes me up with the words «suspected gunman» |
| My name is a warning for the acts you are about to witness |
| Which contain images that some viewers may find disturbing |
| My name belongs to us all |
| So if they ask for yours give them mine |
| My name is a threat |
| «Riot» is an unfinished grave that was dug to deposit undepleted anger |
| Like barrels of uranium leaking into something sacred |
| It is a word to use to delegitimize your unrest |
| And to make your resistance into an overreaction |
| The pink tube of paint called flesh |
| Used in portraits of chairmen of boards and |
| Men who clean up streets named after those who fought |
| For erasing the lives they now claim to protect |
| What is an up and coming neighborhood and where is it coming from? |
| A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret |
| Violence is daily life |
| A promise, a pact that the world never kept |
| Violence is daily life |
| A cause, an effect, a rejoice, a regret |
| Violence is daily life |
| A promise, a pact that the world never kept |
| Violence is daily life |
| Much like the air you breathe |
| The water you drink |
| Violence is so omnipresent |
| So ingrained in your daily reality |
| You forget to notice it happens everyday |