A Real Thing

Picking up the tyres from the side of the road

Gonna push back the coming tide

Lay them in the harbour in symmetrical rows

Disappear when the water is high

 

Setting and regretting now my sneakers are soaked

So they're drying in the sun outside

It's not what I intended when I woke up the house

I was screaming, "We're all gonna die"

 

And now we're all in late trains

Racing the motorway

 

Getting rhyme over reason

It's a sinister silly season

But maybe we can end up meaning a real thing

 

Picking up the tyres from the side of the road

Gonna push back the coming tide

Laying down beside them like I'm in on the joke

Wake me up when the world is fried

And you're sorry, I see it when you open your mouth

You've got one hand over your heart while you're holding me down

Oh, I want to hope but if that's not allowed

I guess I'll go out instead

 

Now we're all in relay

We all admit it's strange

Getting rhyme over reason

It's a sinister silly season

But maybe we can end up meaning a real thing

Getting rhyme over reason

It's a sinister silly season

But maybe we can end up meaning

End up meaning

End up meaning a real thing

Picking up the tyres from the side of the road

Gonna push back the coming tide

Picking up the tyres from the side of the road

Gonna push back the coming tide