No Roots Lyrics

We got away and they were

Playing reggae up-down in Georgia

Drinking whiskey at the theater

Smiles all around

I was wearing a suit she tailored

My clothes back home, were they so real?

I was wearing a character in white

In trite, the mess I came as

They sold us a great tradition

Freshly invented and adorned

The old world simulacra

Playing at our door

But I don't think that we should stay here

And things will never be the same

Not exactly as they were

This flux over our heads debates

The world we made so we

Protest day and night to

Make the point that

Nothing is the same

Repetition into the ether

At least we take a stand

And now we're desperately

Searching for our roots and

We're stoking the place where

We think we were born

Not even knowing who

Built this road we've been treading on

All these years, constructing memories

That we run to so we

Can hide our faces

So we can hide our faces

And things will never be the same

Not exactly as they were

This flux over our heads debates

The world we made so we

Protest day and night to

Make the point that

Nothing is the same

Repetition into the ether

At least we take a stand

And things will never be the same

Not exactly as they were

This flux over our heads debates

The world we made so we

Protest day and night to

Make the point that

Nothing is the same

Repetition into the either

At least we take a stand