going out in the apocalypse / into absurdity Lyrics

We're going out in the apocalypse

Throw your gas mask on over your red lips

If the sky is grey, at least it ain't orange

So, it's somewhat better to breathe in

Who cares about fresh air when there's a dollar to be made?

How can you tell me "think for yourself" when there's a dollar to my name

And I still got bills to pay? Got no time to read

The writing on the wall in Plato's Cave

I'm just trying to be saved

We're going out in the apocalypse

Throw your gas mask on over your red lips

If the sky is grey, at least it ain't orange

So, it's somewhat better to breathe in

Who needs a roof to eat or a room to lay their head?

After all, I'm too busy working doubles in the middle of a pandemic

But you know how the old adage goes

We can all sleep when we're dead

Otherwise, what's instead?

How do we measure our success?

I guess we'll find out when the morning comes

If it comes

Now is the time to look into your mind

Ask the meaning why

Make out with your life in the moonlight

Buy your friends dinner

Buy yourself a drink

Give flowers to the living

Kiss often, and sing yourself to sleep

Since these are the days we stay still facing down our self-hatred

But with the same tongue we spread more love than we believe we can make

So what then can we do in the face of certain extinction?

Focus more on the sky and less on the time of completion

What expanse in our minds when we realize there may not be reason

For what we've all been doing, just cos we've been doing it

Why, it's just what we've been doing this whole time

But just because it's what we've been doing this whole time

It doesn't mean there cannot be a change

We're living in surrealistic existence

Facing daily onslaught absurdist tragedies

When living gets so bad you laugh out of sadness

So hard the tears come rolling down your cheeks

Until you can't quite tell whether you've started crying

Or finding peace

Wedged between

Tragedy and absurdity

So, lean into absurdity

Oh, lean into absurdity

All we can do is lean into absurdity

Lean into absurdity with me

Lean into absurdity with me