This is a song (about how everything about us is tracked, documented, recorded, filed, mined, bought, sold, etc. etc. on some level) that is wrapped around a molten core of a breakdown/freakout/majorminorinterweave that is probably the moment I’m most proud of on the whole record. After showing you...
[Verse 1]
The product of my timezone
Mix CDs and dial tones
Where we would listen to the universe think
While our heroes from the wreckage
Deliver us their message
On the perks of knowin' how to lip sync
[PreChorus 1]
I can see the last frontier
[Chorus 1]
The sunshine on a perfect day
Everything is permanent now
The single that gets over played
Everything is permanent now
The bubbles in your third rosé
Everything is permanent now
The movements of the Milky Way
Everything is permanent now
[Verse 2]
A wilderness of gossip
Asking for deposits
Yet it leaves you with some type of withdrawal
Playing on our senses
With a thousand of its lenses
On everything you ate or just bought
[PreChorus 2]
The voices in the atmosphere
[Chorus 2]
The home life of celebrities
Everything is permanent now
Subliminal obscenities
Everything is permanent now
The side effects of ecstasy
Everything is permanent now
All the people that we used to be
Everything is permanent now
[Instrumental breakdown]
[Verse 3]
These tangled creepin' vines
Towards a life you left behind
And the people you've forgotten you'd kissed
A wayward strand of anger
At some controversial stranger
Who swears the virus didn't exist
[PreChorus 3]
I don't know where we go from here
I don't know how I'm s'posed to feel
The language of the hemispheres
The lonely server farms
[Chorus 3]
The level of the rising sea
Everything is permanent now
The politics of Christmas trees
Everything is permanent now
The whole world within one screen
Everything is permanent now
I'm thinking we all should come clean
Everything is permanent now, now, now
[Outro]
Did you really need to cry or be seen cryin'?
Did you really need to cry or be seen cryin'?
Did you really need to cry or be seen cryin'?
Everything Is Permanent was written by Taylor Goldsmith.
Everything Is Permanent was produced by Jonathan Wilson.
Dawes released Everything Is Permanent on Fri Jul 22 2022.