Empire歌詞

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Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
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I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packaged, shipped, and sold
Numbers change color
As the young become old
And I can see why
But I don't know how
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
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Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
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Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da-dum
I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packaged, shipped, and sold
Numbers change color
As the young become old
And I can see why
But I don't know how
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da-dum
"Angelheaded hipsters
burning for the ancient heavenly connection
to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
Who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed
and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness
of cold-water flats floating across
the tops of cities contemplating jazz
Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
among the scholars of money and war"
I've seen the best minds of my generation
Packaged, shipped, and sold
Numbers change color
As the young become old
And I can see why
But I don't know how
Thousands can bury
Their brains in the ground
"And who therefore
ran through the icy streets obsessed with a sudden flash"