Fancy Flashy Toys Lyrics

With a few small precious moments we trade happiness for things

And we run our bodies ragged for what tomorrow brings

But tomorrow never comes and we're stuck wishing on a dream

Missing all the beauty like the songbirds as they sing

Cause they sing songs for sunshine and songs for air

They don't give a good goddamn for what we humans call despair

Cause they're too busy flying free, trying not to unalive

While we humans crawl around in dirt just trying to survive

And I'm so goddamn fucking tired all the time

From all the noise

Chasing dollar signs and new designs

And fancy flashy toys

I wanna scream into the void that I'm a mess and I'm depressed

But if no one's there to hear me did I waste my only breath

We work in jobs that make us sick but insurance covers it

We put our lives in a decline for more company profit

We line right up for slavery and sell our souls for greed

Cause they tell us we're supposed to and they say it's what we need

You can't package up my soul and stamp a smile on the box

While I work myself to death and drag my feet in dirty socks

I can choose between a scrap of food or gas inside my car

Or I could just go hungry for new strings on this guitar

And I'm so goddamn fucking tired all the time

From all the noise

Chasing dollar signs and new designs

And fancy flashy toys

I wanna scream into the void that I'm a mess and I'm depressed

But if no one's there to hear me did I waste my only breath

I don't know why we feel the need to work our fingers to the bone

To post another status that we're sitting on a throne

Why can't we just be happy knowing what we've always known

Can't take money with us when we die we die alone

Then it's you and God recounting all those precious moments lost

Stacking dollar bills in pockets of a man you call your boss

So toss your coins in wishing wells take back your moments lost

Tell your kids they shouldn't squander it when life is the real cost

And I'm so goddamn fucking fed up all the time

Being stripped of all the joys

Distracted by the latest trends

And fancy flashy toys

I wanna scream into the void that I am happy and alive

If I have to crawl in dirt for now I know that I'll survive

To sing songs of sunshine and songs of air

Songs of freedom we can take back if we dare

We'll sing songs of sunshine and songs of air

Songs of freedom we'll sing songs because we care

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