Graham Parker - Empty Lives lyrics

rate me

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire

another moment that flashes into nowhere

a brand name on a pill that get's you there, ah ah ah ah

I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion

the past aint even worth livin in

its just a nail that keeps being driven in ah ah ah ah

I'm cold blooded and completely relaxed

I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts

on the up escalator going down all the cracks, yeah ah ah ah

You are the dummies of another frightened nation

I am a candidate for elevation

but when i woke up this morning I'd lost all sensation

all sensation

So get them, get him, but don't get me

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives

i i i i ives Empty lives

Your empty lives Empty lives

Be obedient, there is no escape

Forms to fill, time to kill love death and rape

Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you ahhhhhhhh

Don't look for tomorrow, it's given you the slip

that's all contained on a silicon chip

I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip

everybody's grip slip

So get them, get him, but don't get me

ah uh ah ah can't hear your cries

so don't get me to fill up your empty lives

i i i i ives Empty lives

Just there waiting to be filled

with someone else's stronger will

Just can't reason to survive with empty empty

you got the empty empty, You got the empty empty,

empty lives!Yeah!

(solo)

Bring me water, bring me cocaine

Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain

But please don't make me feel that emptiness again

Feel the emptyness again

So get them, get him, but don't get me

ah uh ah ah get fat it's your size but

don't get me to fill up your empty

don't get me to fill up your empty

don't get me to fill up your empty lives

i i i i i i i ives Your empty lives

Your empty lives

(repeat and fade with ad libbing on

"don't get me" to end on chorus).