Poster Child Americana Lyrics

Lost my innocence, lost my soul

Lost my diligence, lost my self-control

Never asked to do, always told

Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone

Rip out your anger, replace it with languor

Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone

Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

A sink, a stove, a home, a household pet

A dollar that I never got to spend

A roof, a room, a twin size bed

A check just big enough to cover rent

Gotta pay to park, gotta pay to breathe

And after all, you lose your heart in the spider's web they weave

A foe, a friend, a hypocrite

Three ideologies that all conflict

I need your help, but don't take mine

I hate to say it, but I must admit

I don't have the time, I don't have the patience

Relationship built to exhaust, I can't recall the day I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul

Lost my diligence, lost my self-control

Never asked to do, always told

Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone

Rip out your anger, replace it with languor

Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone

Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

Handshake and name

My twenty twenties

They start today

I'm wide awake

Yeah wide awake

My twenty twenties

They start today

I sign my name

I woke up first, to cold embrace

The City desolate and soon erased

But in the here and now I'm fine

Make memories apathy will soon replace

Guess I missed the train, guess I missed my chance

The last express to paradise has left the station, left me

Shaking like a leaf in the wind

I throw the towel in

Glamour, charm, and romance at a cost

Where do I begin?

I guess I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul

Lost my diligence, lost my self-control

Never asked to do, always told

Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone

Rip out your anger, replace it with languor

Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone

Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

Handshake and name

My twenty twenties

They start today

I'm wide awake

Yeah wide awake

My twenty twenties

They start today

I sign my name

After proving you belong

After having sold your song

Looking back you realize

You were the product all along

Dance for companionship

Dance for your class exam

Dance for your chance to grow old and represent a brand

Dance for your board and bed

Dance for your medicine

Dance for your ration of nectar from the pitcher plant

Dance for your dignity

Dance for your promised land

Dance, monkey, dance for your chance to grab a winning hand

Dance to the riverfront

Your music's getting bland

You danced away all your flair to join a cover band

Bit by bit you auction off your focus

Melancholic, misanthropic, made the big promotion

Bit by bit you lose sight of your motives

Burning all the bridges crossed, barely even noticed that I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul

Live in ignorance, loving all night long

Burning alcohol through my veins

Jaded, cynical, hopeful all the same

No way back to the way you were

You can't fight forever, it's a futile endeavor

I pledge allegiance to customer

So put on your smile, if just for a while

Now mold yourself from the clay I hold

Tenderness wasted, replace it with hatred

Then emptied, frenzied and turned to stone

Kill your compassion, replace it with cash and decay

Handshake and name

My twenty twenties

They start today

I'm wide awake

Yeah wide awake

My twenty twenties

They start today

Set the controls

Heart of the sun

We're burning brightly

But we'll be gone before the song is even done

More dopamine

Next up to come

My twenty twenties

Had just begun

And now they're done

Bitter penthouse suite farewell, five-star hotel, it's over now

Take the elevator downtown to Charlie's for the snack bar

Just you wait, just you wait, everybody here drives a jaguar

Wish I could, wish I would, wish I learned to play on that guitar

Waiting on the world to come around

I'm wide awake, but still I'm dreaming

Finally, got some savings now, I've stashed away about a thousand

Jack fell down and broke his crown, tell me, genius, what's the plan now?

Just one accident away from insolvency, plain and simple

Just one accident away, cough it up, you cheap, lazy cripple

Admin said my healing hands are tied

What kinda sick game are you playing?

Tell me how to be content, I'll take your word, and all it meant

One day you could be president, real go-getter, top one percent

Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom, roll the dice for lesser, for greater

Give it up, give it up, everybody does sooner or later

Running out of money, out of time

I'm wide awake, but I stopped dreaming

Gave up all but breathing

Empty, but at least that stops the bleeding

Highest bid can have my soul

Now I fit that rounded hole

Take me off the payroll

Send me home

Through your lips my name lastly uttered

Ten meager years from the machine

Poster Child Americana

Chased the patriotic daydream

As I spend my final dollar

Trickle up to join the sea

Ushered into the City gently

Molded to product sold and bought

Stomach full, but spirit empty

Pointless race we always lost

Though they may have promised plenty

In the end we pay the cost