Lyrics

Chernobyl

[Verse 1]-

Remember when we screamed every lyric from Led Zeppelin?

We tripped on every step, running up the Stairway to heaven.

We held our youth like it was a self-destructive weapon.

We were ticking time bombs in a nuclear Armageddon.

We searched for a silver lining in the LA smog aligning.

In the haze of youth it never fazed us the sun was not shining.

We worshiped each other, never realizing our idols were flawed.

We spoke each other's names like prayers lost on the ears of God.

[Chorus]-

We are,

Reminders we barely survived.

We are,

Ghosts of people who never died.

We are,

Relics of what we were deprived.

We are, we are, we are.

[Verse 2]-

Nothing was golden, but we still dabbled in alchemy.

Driving over 80 on I-5 in your Camry.

We were church kids casually trying to embrace our depravity.

We brushed our tongues with blasphemy and spit in the baptistery.

We wanted to leave, steal moments like thieves, and be reprieved.

To be young is to have the strength to believe.

With blood on our shirts, we wore our hearts on our sleeves.

Our experiences only caused us to be more naïve.

Now your not who they think you are, and we're the only ones who know it:

A closet fascist hanging with the left-wing poets.

You run from the hell of other people with no exit in focus.

You harvest memories to find your mind fully plagued by locusts.

Your former self is imprisoned in photographs:

A child in awe of the culture on Telegraph.

You howl conservative chants all the while contemplating jazz.

You dream of the beach shore, but you never see past Alcatraz.