FORMALDEHYDE! live at the recital ft. Cadence Plenge & Nora Baier Lyrics

Need to preserve things

Exactly as they are

Lock 'em up, put 'em on the shelves

In glistening jars

Pledge allegiance to your nation

Taxidermy

Legislation

You think I'm some kind

Some kind of threat

To the population

Two steps forward, forty years back

Watch us stay stagnant behind glass

I pity, pity, pity, the lack of common sense

What a pretty, pretty, pretty ode to prehistoric men

Here's the thing-

You can't expect to run the world from

Six feet under ground

Though it seems

Your predecessors rules are still around

Wisdom comes with age

Your morals could've fooled me

Entitlement and rage

Won't grant you immortality

Fantasizing of what it used to be

You can't get what you want

Resorting to

Chemical artillery

Pledge allegiance to your nation

Severe lack of education

Doing anything to prevent

Unionization

Two steps forward, forty years back

Watch us stay stagnant behind glass

I pity, pity, pity, the lack of common sense

What a pretty, pretty, pretty ode to prehistoric men

Here's the thing-

You can't expect to run the world from

Six feet under ground

Though it seems

Your predecessors rules are still around

Wisdom comes with age

Your morals could've fooled me

Entitlement and rage

Won't grant you immortality

Keep the land how you designed

Keep it 1965

The good old times will be revived

Drop the country in formaldehyde

Take the souls who dare defy

And watch the screen sensationalize

Modesty is advertised

Drop the country in formaldehyde

Drop the country in formaldehyde