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One Beat
by Sleater-kinney
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Overall Rating:
3.3488
Avg. Critic Score:
3.3153
One Beat Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
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Title
- I'm a bubble in a sound wave
- A sonic push for energy
- Exploding like the sun
- A flash of clean light hope
- All you scientists can hold your breath
- Shall I decide to show myself? Oh oh
- If you think like Thomas Edison
- Could you invent a world for me
- Now all that's on the surface
- Are bloody arms and oil fields
- Could I turn this place upside down
- And shake you and your fossils out? Oh oh
- Should I come outside and run your cars
- Should I run your rockets to the stars
- Could you invent a world for me
- I need to hear a symphony
- If I'm to run the future
- You've got to let the old world go Oh oh
- Your word for me is fusion
- But is real change an illusion
- Could I turn this place all upside down
- And shake you and your fossils out
- If I'm to run the future
- You've got to let the old world go
- Could you invent a world for me
- I need to hear a symphony Oh oh
- 7:30 am nurse the baby on the couch
- then the phone rings
- watch the world explode in flames
- and don't leave the house
- And the sky overhead
- is silent, waiting
- Clear blue holds its breath
- And the heart is hit
- in a city far away
- but it feels so close
- Don't breathe the air today
- Don't speak of why you're afraid
- (Standing here on a one way road
- and I fall down,
- no other direction for this to go
- so we fall down)
- WHY CAN'T I GET ALONG WITH YOU?
- And the president hides
- while working men rush in
- To give their lives
- I look to the sky
- and ask it not to rain
- On my family tonight
- If you're tired of the big so so
- Get yourself into some self control
- Play the game by putting on the brakes
- Slow down and make less mistakes
- Nobody lingers like your hands on my heart
- Nobody figures like you figured me out
- I would be lying if I didn't say to you
- No one comes close don't worry you got it!
- (There's fire if you want it let me know,
- I'm sick and I'm tired of letting go)
- The way I feel when you call my name
- Makes me go crazy to sane
- The way I feel when you're close to me
- Finally not drifting out to sea
- Come on now I wish you would
- I'm the one who makes you feel good
- Never mind those things they say
- They don't know it but I'm here to stay
- One and one and one is two
- All this and more you said was true
- And if you'd left me ground to stand on
- I'd run so far away from you
- What do you do with a remainder?
- You round it up or round it down
- And if you're scared by what you're left with
- Destroy the answer that you've found
- You were the one
- When the day had begun
- The sun was shining on us
- Blinding me such
- That I couldn't see
- There was a hole beneath me
- And then you watched me fall
- With no expression at all
- There is an absolute zero
- But you won't find it on your own
- Only someone else can show you nothing
- And leave you with a gaping hole
- You were the one
- When the storm rolled in
- The sky was grey like your heart
- With no color at all
- I don't know you like this
- You're as reckless as wind
- And I couldn't predict
- Just the way this would end
- Will you come knocking on my door?
- Pull me pick me off the floor
- I might need something to get me going
- Feel it one time IT ROLLS dig it
- When I feel worn out when I feel beaten
- Like a used up shoe or a cake half-eaten
- There's only one way to keep on feeling
- Move it up one time IN TIME dig it
- This mama works till her back is sore
- But the baby's fed and the tunes are pure
- So you'd better get your feet on the floor
- Move it up one time TO THE BEAT
- These times are troubled these times are rough
- There's more to come but you can't give up
- Why don't you shake a tail for peace and love
- Move it up one time FOR LOVE
- JANET CARRIE CAN YOU FEEL IT
- Knife through the heart of our exploitation
- LADIES ONE TIME CAN YOU HEAR IT
- Disassemble our discrimination
- When violence rules the world outside
- And the headlines make me want to cry
- It's not the time to just keep quiet
- Speak up one time TO THE BEAT
- They tell us there are only two sides to be on
- If you are on our side you're right if not you're wrong
- But are we innocent, paragons of good?
- Is our guilt erased by the pain that we've endured?
- Hey look it's time to pledge allegiance
- Oh god I love my dirty Uncle Sam
- Our country's marching to the beat now
- And we must learn to step in time
- Where is the questioning where is the protest song?
- Since when is skepticism un-American?
- Dissent's not treason but they talk like it's the same
- Those who disagree are afraid to show their face
- Let's break out our old machines now
- It sure is good to see them run again
- Oh gentlemen start your engines
- And we know where we get the oil from
- Are you feeling alright now
- Paint myself all red white blue
- Are you singing let's fight now
- Innocent people die, uh oh
- There are reasons to unite
- Is this why we unite?
- If you hate this time
- Remember we are the time!
- Show you love your country go out and spend some cash
- Red white blue hot pants doing it for Uncle Sam
- Flex our muscles show them we're stronger than the rest
- Raise your hands up baby are you sure that we're the best?
- We'll come out with our fists raised
- The good old boys are back on top again
- And if we let them lead us blindly
- The past becomes the future once again
- I wanna run away
- I wanna get away
- but I will never get up
- oh won't you help me up
- I rely on oxygen
- I depend on bitter snow
- I rely on oxygen
- I depend on bitter cold
- I want to know
- why it hurts to stay
- and hurts to go away
- will I be ok?
- Crawled out of the mud
- this filth you called your love
- slept for countless days
- but I will be ok
- I didn't know I could feel this low
- so afraid that I'll watch you go
- Take my strength out
- but I'm not down
- Write this reverse
- I'm not down
- Stay away from the haunted heart
- You swore to yourself that you'd make a new start
- But you just love the demon with the poison dart
- There's nothing left to see
- Turn out the light
- Stay away from the burning house
- Once you get inside you'll never get out
- We'll die together before the flames go out
- Did it burn you baby make you scream and shout?
- Build it up just to tear it down
- There's nothing left but ashes of doubt
- Put it in the ground sing a funeral song
- Have the neighbors over and they'll sing along
- Lowering the coffin on a love gone wrong
- Hey there now what did you bury today?
- Buried the hope I wanted to stay
- Nothing says 'forever' like our very own grave
- There's nothing left of me
- Turn out the light
- No one here but me
- Turn out the light
- She was a very good girl
- Did all her homework in school
- Always came home with top marks
- Teachers said you will go far
- So she buried her nose in her books
- And she never had time for those looks
- For the boys had noticed her frame
- Had grown into a figure number eight
- She went on to study ivy-league
- And to rack up points for her degree
- While the other girls fondled their dates
- She fooled around with her Bunsen plate
- But one night she was walking around
- She passed a club with music so loud
- She wondered what it would be like
- To stay out with a co-ed all night
- Call her your Prisstina
- Would you put her under glass?
- Would you like to study?
- 'Cause she's got such perfect class
- Oh, you want to tempt her
- With your dirty rock n' roll
- Call her your Prisstina
- She's such a pretty girl
- The party's already started and the music's drifting in
- Don't wait on your fairy godmother she's late on her way to you
- Should you trust that old Prince Charming
- You know he never did you any good
- But have yourself a ball, Prisstina, do all the things I would!
- She will go to the head of the class
- And all you boys need to get a late pass
- 'Cause she'll leave those dull lads behind
- Yeah that girl is ahead of her time
- You stay on 'til you're good and raw
- Go back and forth, a little see saw
- Praying that this ride will end
- But when it does you go again
- Can't get that monster
- Out of my mind
- She's got my hair and
- She's got my eyes
- She follows me wherever I go
- Speaking for me and
- Wearing my clothes
- You hang on 'til your hands are sore
- Blistering but you still want more
- You think there's something here for you
- Go out and buy yourself a clue
- In Hollywood where all the lights are low
- And truth's as rare as the winter snow
- She wanted a place arid as her soul
- Where her only job was never to grow old
- When the lights are shining
- Will you see my skin
- Or just the shell that
- I'm packaged in
- I've held my tongue
- And I've hid my sores
- If I'm less of myself
- Will you love me more
- I know I come to you only when in need
- I'm not the best believer
- not the most deserving
- but all I have all I am all I can
- For him
- I'd beg you on bended knees for him:
- Precious baby, is your life hanging by a thread?
- A thread I'm standing on, praying on today
- All I have all I am all I can
- For him
- I'd beg you on bended knees for him
- I've got this curse in my hands
- All I touch fades to black
- Turns to dust turns to sand
- I've got this curse on my tongue
- All I taste is the rust
- This decay in my blood
- I don't like the doctor with the deep long face
- Only wants to give us the very worst case
- I'd rather shout out and shake him and do anything
- For him
- I'd beg you on bended knees for him
- When the moment strikes
- it takes you by surprise and
- leaves you naked in the face of death and life
- there is no righteousness in your darkest moment
- We're all equal in the face of what we're most afraid of
- And I'm so sorry
- for those who didn't make it
- and for the mommies who are left with their heart breaking
- Search for meaning in sores
- The sentences they might form
- It's the grammar of skin
- Peel it back, let me in
- Look for hope in the dark
- The shadow cast by your heart
- It's the grammar of faith
- No more rules, no restraint
- How angry I would be
- If you'd taken him away
- I wish I was wiser but instead
- I'll be grateful I'll say thanks
- For the joy for the love for the smile on his face
- I'd beg you on bended knees for him
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