Thousand Rumbling Kilowatts Lyrics

All I've ever known is just pretend

All I've ever known is just pretend

All I've ever known is just pretend

All I've ever known is that I wish I had a microphone

In every place I'll never know

To capture all the sounds that they emit

Oh, I'd rather hear the chatter of a diner in Manhattan

Than be deafened by this life I choose to live

Oh, I wish there was a speaker box

That rattled chains and broke locks

(A thousand fucking kilowatts of bass)

Oh, I wish I had the words to say

When all my words just go away

And I am left unfounded by your grace

And I am left unfounded by your grace

And when the lights in the city where I live grow dim

Oh, I whisper to the moon, yeah, you know it's him I love

Of all the views of the sun you know he's got the perfect one

He regards her, oh so beautifully, above himself, he does

Oh, there was a day that's not today

I knew the names on all the graves

That littered the cemetery down my street

I used to think I'd die one day and on that day I'd go away

To heaven and then that is where we'd meet

There was a day I knew your name

Now all my friends have gone away

They left to fight a war that never ends

Their guns are made of macrame, their helmets, papier-mâché

And all we've ever known is just pretend

And all we've ever known is just pretend

And when the lights go out the moon's dim glow will show

And then we'll know

And when the lights in the city where I live grow dim

Oh, I whisper to the moon, yeah, you know it's him I love

Of all the views of the sun you know he's got the perfect one

He regards her oh so beautifully above himself, he does