Thursday War All The Time (Acoustic) Lyrics

Standing on the edge of the Palisades' Cliffs
In the shadow of the skyline
It seemed very far away
Like a lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me
When I was five years old
My best friend's older brother died
He fell from these cliffs
The river washed him away
The current pulled him downstream
And our lives float in the headlines
So we park these cars in our parent's garage
To listen to the lullaby of carbon monoxide:

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast
Now we're falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
If the sun doesn't rise
We'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion, a painted jail cell
Of light in the sky
Like three-mile-island nightmares on TVs that sing us to sleep
They burn on and on like an oil field
Or the memory of what it felt like
To burn on and on and not just fade away
All those nights in the basement
The kids are still screaming
"On and on and on!"

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast
falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags

And we're blowing in the wind
We don't know where to land
So we kiss like little kids
We used to be very tall buildings
We've been falling for so long
Now your eyes are the sign on the edge of town
They offer a welcome when you are leaving

War all of the time
In the shadow of the New York skyline
We grew up too fast
Falling apart
Like the ashes of American flags
When the pieces fall it's a last-day parade
And the fires in our streets to rage
Wave to the people who long to wave back
From a fabric of a flag that sang Love all of the time