Used to the Signs

from This Painting Doesn't Dry by Liance

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Getting used to the signs
Our microwave screen is smashed in
But we know it’s gonna ring
Yeah we’re getting used to the signs

Getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs

Used to think we were all forgiven
As if nothing really changed at all
But since you’ve crawled out from isolation
You’ve been eying exits at every floor

Raised in the shadow of the Seventies
Raised in the science of a song
You and I could have been in New York these days
But it’s the same there as London or Hong Kong

My life thesis was so run-of-the-mill
Courage is no virtue when results are nil
A misadventure doomed from the early onset
While wild beasts are swimming just beneath the onsen

We’re getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs
Getting used to the signs

Last April we took our bikes down to the sea
A group of hooded men carried a cross down to the beach
Now our neighbours are out sunbathing on the street
In hospitals plastic sheets cover still-living bodies

Back in the palace now - trace the stations of the cross
When I think of what became of us, Oh God it was such a rush

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from This Painting Doesn't Dry, released April 21, 2021

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