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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Brandon Flowers
Brandon Flowers
Lead Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Killers
The Killers
Producer
Stuart Price
Stuart Price
Producer
Robert Root
Robert Root
Recording Engineer
Ted Sablay
Ted Sablay
Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Your class, your cash, your country, sect
Your name or your tribe
There's people alway's dying
Trying to keep 'em alive
There's bodies decomposing
In containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
[Verse 2]
Squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With 15 cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
[Verse 3]
But when great Satan's gone
The whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain
The pressure where it's placed
She caves
She caves
[Verse 4]
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf
The Quran is mute
If you burned them all together
You'd get close to the truth
Still, they're pouring over Sanskrit
Under ivy league moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
[Verse 5]
Cast all the school of meditation
Built to soften the times
And holds us at the center
While the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences
Crossing property lines
Four winds cry until it comes
[Verse 6]
And it's the sum of man
Slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain
All of that empty space
It breaks
It breaks
It breaks
[Verse 7]
Well I went back by
Rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee
Retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, you'd better look alive
[Verse 8]
And I was off to old Dakota
Where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands
The calloused East
I buried my ballast
I made my peace
With four winds leveling the pines
[Verse 9]
But when great Satan's gone
The whore of Babylon
She just can't remain
With all that outer space
She breaks
She breaks
She caves
She caves
She breaks
You'd better look alive
Written by: Conor M Oberst
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