Landslide
Dead Man Ray Lyrics

I always knew you were a landslide
I always knew you were something that was slowly but surely destroying everything it touched

Like plains are roofs until they fly
Just like how something appears stable and unchanging until it's suddenly, uncontrollably in motion

What you've been calling minor cracks dear
The issues that you've been downplaying and ignoring, my love,

I fear are bound to shift to gaps of greed
I'm afraid that those problems will inevitably grow into much bigger, more insurmountable issues, caused by your unrelenting desire for more and more

Leave
Get out of here, quickly,

Before they come and call you
Before the people who will be hurt by your actions start calling you out for what you've done

Before you're stuck with me
Before you become trapped in a cycle of toxicity with me

Never ask for any meaning
Don’t ask me what it all means,

Never ask me to be dealing
Don't ask me to help you through this,

With the cure for what i? m healing
I myself am not capable of fixing the things inside me that need fixing

Wait in vain for prefab feelings
And don't expect something like a perfect, cookie-cutter romance to just materialize out of nowhere

Now comes the time to face your plot dear
It's time for you to come to terms with what you've done, dear

And to embrace this mental plague
And to accept the fact that the issues that plague us are centered in your own mind

I'm your neurotic countercrashtest
I stand in as a sort of countercrash-test to your neurotic tendencies

May i steal the engine from your burning wreck?
Can I help you fix yourself before everything gets destroyed by your self-destructive tendencies?

Fear
Don't let yourself be wracked with fear over this,

Won't drive you to my outskirts
Don't run away from your troubles only to encounter more when you end up running to me

So get off while you can
Just leave while you still have the chance

Jump into the same old river
Try to escape your problems by falling back into old, familiar habits

Knights are white and horses shiver
Desperately clinging to outdated ideals is no way to solve your problems

Hate the series love the trailer
Just because something seems good on the surface doesn't mean it's immune to deeper criticism

Like the song but hate the lyrics
And sometimes in life it’s possible to enjoy something for its surface qualities but still dislike the underlying meaning

So now i've written you my last will
This message will be the last thing I ever send to you

It sounds exactly like the first
It will likely sound just like all of the other messages I've sent to you in the past

I might escort you to my to the exit
Perhaps I could show you the door on the way out,

Face it dear
But you need to understand

I'm just a hunter with no gear
I'm just a man with no real way of achieving anything anymore

Hey
Hey there,

This silence is amusing
Is it not a fascinating thing, this quiet that has fallen between us?

And it would be a shame to sing
It would be a shame to disturb this tranquility with music,

Bout diamonds falling off my ceiling
When all the while, diamonds are falling from the metaphorical ceiling

Moralisers keep patrolling
Why must the moralizers continue to patrol and judge from on high?

All my exes keep on calling
And why do all of my exes keep reaching out to me?

Greet the gap before you're falling
You should take notice of the distance between yourself and the impending collapse

Never say you love me (you don't)
Never say the words when you don't truly feel them in your heart

Never say you do (you don't)
Don't pretend or put on an act, when it's patently clear you don't really mean what you're saying

Never say you trust me (you don't)
Never claim that you trust someone when you don't, in actual fact, trust them

Don't believe my truth (landslide)
But at the same time, don't take my truth as the ultimate truth or fact, because you're about to be swept away in a landslide

Fruits are best forbidden (to rot)
Often times the things that we crave and desire the most are the things that will ultimately rot and decay us to our core

Roots are there to hide (deep down)
Our roots, the foundation upon which we build ourselves is often simply a means to help us hide from the issues we face deep down

Memory's a riddance (recall)
And our memories, often the good ones, are simply a means to mask the problems we've faced in the past

Overpaint the slides (landslide)
And so we gloss over our struggles and try to escape them, sliding ever nearer to the monumental, life-altering landslide to come

Love me like a landslide (you don't)
Love me with the force and unstoppable power of a landslide, but deep down, you don't really know how to, do you?

Lead me to my mud (you won't)
Don't leave me in the mud, but it's difficult to believe that you'd be willing to lead me elsewhere either, is it not?

Slide into the open (landslide)
Just slide aimlessly into the open, hoping that the chaos and destruction will be left in your wake

Gliding from my hand (landslide)
And do not forget that, ultimately, all of this will slip from our hands like dirt and rocks on the slopes of a landslide