War All The Time
Thursday Lyrics

Standing on the edge of the palisades cliffs
I'm standing here, looking out at the horizon from the precipice.

In the shadow of the skyline very far away
The towering buildings of New York hover in the distance.

A lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me
The electrical conductor could neither stop the lightning storm, nor my internal chaos.

I was 5 years old my best friends older brother died
I lost a close friend's brother when I was very young.

He fell from these cliffs
The friend's brother died by accident on the same cliff I'm standing on now.

The river washed him away the current pulled him downstream
His body was taken down the river, never to be seen again.

In our eyes, floating in the headlights, so we parked these cars
We parked our cars and sat by the side of the road, stunned by the tragedy.

Parent's garage
We were sitting in the safety of our parents' garage.

Listen to the lullaby
We were lulled by the sound of the cars passing by.

Of Carbon Monoxide
The exhaust fumes from the cars mixed with our sadness.

War all of the time
Life feels like a constant state of war.

In the shadow of the New York skyline
The city looms over everything, casting a shadow on our lives.

We grew up too fast falling apart
We had to grow up too fast, too soon, and it's taking a toll on us.

Like the ashes of American flags
We're like the ashes of a once-great nation, now consumed by our own flames.

The sun doesn't rise
The world is dark and bleak.

We replaced it with an h-bomb explosion
In our desperation, we turned to violent means to solve our problems.

A painted jail cell of blood in the sky like Three Mile Island
The sky looks like a prison cell drenched in blood, reminiscent of the Three Mile Island disaster.

Nightmares on TV they used to sing us to sleep
Our nightly routine used to be peaceful, but now it's filled with horrific nightly news.

They burn on and on like an oil field
The chaos and destruction never seems to end, like an uncontrollable fire fueled by oil.

Or a memory of what it felt like
Or it all feels like a distant memory of what we once knew.

To burn on and on and not just fade away
Instead of fading away, the flames of destruction continue to burn.

All those nights in the basement the kids are still screaming
We're still haunted by the screams of children hiding out in basements during wartime.

We don't know where to land
We don't have a clear path, and don't know where to go.

So we kiss like little kids
We try to find comfort in intimacy, searching for a sense of normality amidst the chaos.

We used to be very tall buildings
We were once strong and towering, but now we're falling apart.

We've been falling for so long
We've been failing and falling for such a long time that it's hard to remember anything else.

Now your eyes follow the sign on the edge of town
As you leave town, you catch a glimpse of a sign and your eyes linger on it.

They offer a welcome when you are leaving
The sign is a bittersweet reminder that we can always come home, even if we have to leave first.

The pieces fall it's like a last day parade
Everything is falling apart, and it feels like the end of the world.

And the fires in our streets start to rage
Violence on the streets is escalating.

so wave, to the people that long to wave back
We wave to those who crave connection, even if they can't respond.

from the fabric of a flag that sang "love all of the time"
We try to find hope in the history of our nation, which once called for love over everything else.

All of the time
All the time, we're consumed by the chaos that surrounds us.

War all of the time [Repeat: x4]
We're constantly in the midst of war, and it may never end.