Recorded live at Serious Business Music Recording Studio in NYC for BreakThru Radio's BTR Live Studio Sessions on May 22, 2013.
*Additional guitars, vocals, and percussion recorded at The Sleeper Ship in Seattle, WA in 2018.
lyrics
in the most crowded center of town
lives a great mass of desperate men
trying to drink all the songs in the air
trying their best to believe the world's real
if their enemies win
they'll be trapped inside an illusion
like the crush of a crowded city
in the lushest of green growing fields
sits an elephant humming a tune
never truly alone with her thoughts
a million microbes alive on her skin
if her enemies win
she'll be trapped inside this illusion
like the crush of a crowded city / that's never quitting
tricked into living / in this crowded city
in a galaxy too big for space
cheapest food for the poorest of men
trying to drink all the songs in the air
trying their best to believe the world's real
if their enemies win
they'll be trapped inside an illusion
like that crush
credits
from BTR Live Studio,
released September 14, 2013
Eric Dell Schwortz - guitars, vocals, percussion
Laura Kane - bass guitar
Steve Leventhal - drums
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