Music (Redux) Lyrics

So his eyes are closed, hands shaking

Heart rate's at the speed of Gabba, a twitch from his normal manner

Thoughts clouded like it's about to pour down

Safety's off in the trenches - it's war now

Half-assed, cap leaning

Pants sagged, Air Max fresh, Dazed reporting for duty

Proven guilty by the Jury

Haters laying by the curb-side

The fuel for the fury

Lighting strikes the blood drips from the wrists edge

Stumbling down Swanston St like a pisshead

Mis-lead child sparks up another cigarette

Smokes it to the filter

Flicks it to the street

Trips over milk crates his therapy's beats

Otherwise he's drowning in the street

Mind of the beaten track

Smacked out an overdose of haters

Rips the cardboard from the flyer

Reach for papers

Weed broken up like past relationships

Dumbing all his thoughts out with spliffs

Necks another longneck down

These lights start to blind him

On lookers watch what he's doing

It's too confusing

Spits phlegm at a park-bench and passes

Junkies and dumb fucks in the midst of smashed glasses

Then it hits him

His heart starts to panic

A long walk home but this time it's gonna be tragic

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

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What do you do when the music stops

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

Lay the path view all the plots

What do you do when the music stops

I feel this pain rushing through in my veins

I try to numb it when I realise from the pack that Zac's not quite the same

There's a change

A catalyst of thoughts

An influx of a flood

The scar's deep the dirt turns into mud

I guess I'm back where I started

A game of Snakes and Ladders

Mis-matched worlds for my universe to manage

Never one to really open up unless I really trust 'em

Or rhyming over bars though to most the word won't mean nothing

But what happens when there's no one there to trust

Or want to save their burden 'cos you think it means too much

It gets darker the walls are closing in

You start to scream search around for an opening

Breathing at a higher pace time to sit the fuck down

Lighting up a joint put my brain into lockdown

It seems like this way's the only way to be

Sitting in a daze living life like a Zombie

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

Lay the path view all the plots

What do you do when the music stops

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

Lay the path view all the plots

What do you do when the music stops

So being free to me's a whole new experience

Living with my head high whilst bad's an insignificance

I seem to get close the finish line in eye sight

It's almost at an arm's reach

The shine from the star light

It's bright

I swear it's kinda like a dream

Cos I wake up in reality and shit isn't clean

Sometimes I feel like I don't even exist

So if I left it'd make no difference for you people to miss

It's clear to me that way's a shitty weaker option

Won't do it but I'll think it

A game of thought chess boxing

Grabbing ladders always searching for a higher place

Search into the past to find that weak mind state

I pinned it down but the nail isn't sharp enough

Hammering my head down cos life is tough

And it seems to me that I will never be free

But I'll always keep trying cos it means so much to me

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

Lay the path view all the plots

What do you do when the music stops

What do you see when the lights go out

What do you hear when you fight the power

It's the reckoning hour

Lay the path view all the plots

What do you do when the music stops