Max Levine Ensemble - Hollow Words lyrics

rate me

Your words are like an anesthetic.

I try to listen but I just get fed up,

It's just like putting people to sleep,

Cuz what's nice on the surface ain't so nice underneath.

At the state of the union we agree to applaud,

It gets pretty easy just to smile and nod

And what's fraud and what's not all gets lost

In the roar of the empty applause.

I know you're talking but I think I've heard and

Oh, I'm tired of hollow words.

Pop music is like Novacaine

Prescribed for a world where you feel no pain

A world of pinks and purples and blues

Where what's real and what's not get confused

I had role models who never followed through.

If you can't count on them

Well then what do you do?

And I just don't know who I can trust anymore.

It's something false that you pretend is true and

It's not a matter of the misconstrued.

You think you're on top and I've heard it before

And I don't wanna be reassured.

You're not the first and you're not the third

And I'm just tired of hollow words.