Autobiography comes in many forms. This one's a cross between bumping r 'n b and punky power pop. Who knew?
lyrics
Feel like I'm swimming upstream
Struggling 'gainst some demon tide
All the terrors come at night
I wake up paralyzed
The monsters we were told were fake
Live in my bones
Wo, every step we take
We don't take alone
No picture postcards, paperweights
Don't need no souvenirs
No handful of forget-me-nots
Will make the timeline clear
Some folks would rather want than have
That's how they dance
'Coz when you have the things you want
Those things lose their romance
CHORUS
And everybody's living at the top, wo oh
Everybody's living at the top, hey now
Everybody's living at the top
Everyone gets their shot
And the things that you do
They come back on you
And everybody's living at the top
Until the music stops
Dark cloud 'round my soul
And still I tell myself it's fine
My brains replaying memories
That aren't even mine
A box of letters stained with age
Have been rearranged
To tell a different story every day
Still that shit turns out the same
CHORUS Repeat
Close you eyes and visualize the future that you seek
Some mystic mumbo jumbo
Meant to calm you, to disarm you
Keep you pacified and weak
Rainy days and Mondays
Bring her up, don't get her down
It's like summer vacation
Any time that she's around
I fell into the bluest eyes
I've been synthesized
Ever morning when I rise
And she's still by my side
CHORUS Repeat
Hey yeah yeah
Everybody's living at the top 'til the music stops, oh yeah eah eah eah
Everybody's living at the top until the music... stops
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