Song Description
About the Northridge '94 earthquake, or about any time life shakes things up
| Song Length |
5:23 |
Genre |
Pop - Alternative, Pop - Dreampop |
| Tempo |
Slow (71 - 90) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Passive, Disconcerted |
Subject |
Disasters, Life |
| Similar Artists |
Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
It's 5am and the floorboards are trembling
But they don't nearly know the fear I feel right now
My bed coasts like a boat out on the ocean
The pictures fall and the windows all blow out
And there's nothing I can do
Nothing I can do
When everything I know has gone to pieces
And all I've learned to love falls in the sea
I'm crying out to god in heaven, save me
From the world I've known
And the world that's left to be
It doesn't long to reprioritize
When the highway out my window just collapsed
And the houses down my street
Are falling to their feet
And the rocks have made my car in no time flat
And there's nothing I can do
Nothing I can do
When everything I know has gone to pieces
And all I've learned to love falls in the sea
I'm crying out to god in heaven, save me
From the world I've known
And the world that's left to be
My baby down the hall just laughs at it all
Her crib becomes a teacup spinning round
But this disneyland was built on sand
And there's no mercy to be found
Underneath the angry ground
And there's nothing I can do
Nothing I can do
When everything I know has gone to pieces
And all I've learned to love falls in the sea
I'm crying out to god in heaven, save me
From the world I've known
And the world that's left to be
As the Pacific helps itself to all our trees
When this all is done I hope I'm still in one piece
There's nothing I can do
There's nothing I can do
It's not up to me
So now it's up to you
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