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This song is just about allowing for freedom and recklessness in your life before it’s too late to enjoy it.

lyrics

so you think you are very sad
but we're here to convince you otherwise
you think you've read all you can read
and politics has left you dissatisfied
I don't want to change you mind
It's the last thing on mine
kissing the ground for security
you know that change is necessary

apologies but there is no answer
every one of us is rotting away
so let's spend out time on dancing,
let's spend out money on nothing

you can travel through the year, and not change at all
when I picked up my lover from the station, she said she had seen it all

tallest buildings, smallest homesteads
"and I shopped till I dropped" said she
I will will make you a homestead darling
If you do a little dance with me

it's important in life to expect to be free
a bond, a union, a pact between
the words you make truth or lies
sometimes it's just our life-line
we hold hands and walk straight through
the ties and chains and ticket stiles
two fingers for hoping we'd fail
and two hands holding the final nail.

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from A Hurricane, A Thunderstorm, released March 2, 2014

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