STÖJ SNAK - GRAVITY

GRAVITY (feat. Sigurvin Sigurdsson)

Gravity is just a theory

Scientific laws owe us nothing at all 

We accelerate all the same once we go down

But it’s not how you fall but how you land that counts

 

This old weight, it doesn’t attract me

Here I am okay, I am floating to space

Far away from laws of gravity

I’ll learn to let go, I don’t need you to catch me

 

For too long I’ve been drawn to tragedy

And I feel it closing it 

I can’t escape this pull of gravity 

Won’t you catch me? 

Gravity

 

Withering leaves, rain dry on the streets

The summer leaves this town in a breeze 

If the reasons you’re sad are invisible, it doesn’t mean they’re not there

Like suspended ghosts constantly in the air

 

For too long I’ve been drawn to tragedy

And I feel it closing it 

I can’t escape this pull of gravity 

Won’t you catch me? (I don’t need you to catch me)

Gravity

 

Gravity is just a theory, 

But it’s not how you fall but how you get up that really counts

 

PLAYGROUNDS

Tire swing in rusty chains

Relentless sunsets, peeling paint

I stood right here in another lifetime 

 

Familiar ghosts, rattling bones

A UFO will take me home

The truth is out there just beyond the night sky

 

Sometimes I start to wonder if these things were ever real

Or – just some stranger’s misplaced memory

 

Solid ground, what a place to sink

Hide in plain sight, cling to a drink

I’ve searched for love but it’s just another urban legend

 

By strokes of luck some got away

Others got stuck watching the change

The concrete now hosts other people’s stories

 

Sometimes I wonder if I miss the way things used to be

Or- just the way these things once made me feel

 

Nostalgia and detachment, the tension and release

Turn my memories dim and illusive 

Sometimes I start to wonder if that kid was even me

And why – this place never taught me how to live 

 

These fences look so different from the other side

Hardly any sound comes through the cracks

This playground now seem painted in a foreign light

And once you leave, you’re never coming back

 

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man”

– Heraclitus circa 550 B.C.

LATE STAGE CAPITULATION

This whole fucking system has been built on corruption 

And it’s kept in place to serve itself 

We are all scared shitless that in case of a disruption 

We might lose what little we got 

 

So we pray to televisions for some sort of distraction

That will save us from reality 

While we binge entertainment the wealth all trickles upwards

And into bank accounts in Panama

 

As long as we’re alive there are reasons still to try

Tonight might be be the night the levee breaks

The world wants us in line but not without a fight

Tonight might be the night we’ll see it change 

Whoa

 

We can gaze into the darkness without being consumed

When we’ve got each other and I’ll hold on to you

If you’ll hold on to me

 

The truth is just an agreement the rich like to believe in 

To make superheroes of themselves 

They paint the poor as leeches, in the end we’re all just people 

But Billionaires have better marketing

 

Those who started the gold rush are those selling the shovels

The prospers of progress still remain 

We’ve somehow been convinced to fight over the bread crumbs

But tonight might be the night we’ll see it change 

 

We can gaze into the darkness without being consumed

When we’ve got each other and I’ll hold on to you

If you’ll hold on to me

 

We can gaze into the darkness without being consumed

When we’ve got each other and I’ll hold on to you

If you’ll hold on to me

 

PHILOSOPHICAL MALNUTRITION 

Our lives are props in a dark, cliché sci-fi scene:

Big corps and bad actors

Run mass behavioral modification schemes

 

Gamify our addictions

Feeding on self-doubt and shame

Designs that’re slowly nudging us to change

 

This echo chamber of factoid conspiracies

And science deniers

Weigh on our minds and tap into our beliefs

 

No exchange of opinions

Stupid moves faster than smart

Our social ties are tearing us apart

 

Whoa, we’re drowning in information

Whoa, but starving for wisdom

Whoa, we’re choking on information

Philosophical malnutrition

Yes!

 

We feed on systems that feed on stupidity 

Designed for distraction 

We’re not the customers, we’re the commodities 

 

Monetize our connections

Lay out a trail of breadcrumbs

A wall of stimuli waits at our thumbs

 

Whoa, we’re drowning in information

Whoa, but starving for wisdom

Whoa, we’re choking on information

Philosophical malnutrition

 

Take my hand

Let’s go outside

Take my hand

Lets go outside

 

“Social media gave stupid what stupid never had before: Validation!”