Decay in Effect Songtext
von mcenroe

This is decay, decay
Blown out buildings
Backed up sewers
Some come from the suburbs to witness
Even take pictures
For an ironic postcard
Or post-war sorry
Treated like a ghost story
Industrial devolution
Must be no solution
Capitalism has half us in prison
Prophet religion taking profit
Omit, ready for the obit
It′s trouble in utopia I know
It's high end design down
Like Truett Igoe
While Philip Glass plays
Wars in a glass case
The tenants keep running but they′re ending in last place
The romantics panicked


The Bauhaus bowed out
The architects checked for their god complex
The modernists profited well
Bohemians dreaming without Edie Brickell
The decadence danced in the dandy's dress
But the rest of us dreamt for an ounce of respite
The best laid plans got rushed and rust
Bust to dust as an investment trust
Write off the neighborhood sell off
The slum to the well off
They made off like Madoff or Adolf
Evil or ignorance is the victor's difference
So who wrote the history?
This is decay, decay
The frequency of laughs is very seldom
If you know tomorrow′s math like Hari Seldon
The foundation cracks no one′s rebelling
Repairing, long road back from the bottom's apparent
We′re caught up as parents
We bought into shortcut living
Stock up on our appearance
Bottled water won't last
What I got I go past
Many road blocks
And when the night falls
When the night falls
And what we know′s lost
Who made the right call matters not
The climb of the ladder stopped
The top hatter's stock dropped
The half hatter knocked off
No more calculation
Market manipulation
When the streets is caved in
Decay′s in effect
The circuit's circus is worthless
Without electrical current
The technical permits
The spiritual burnage
The youth can endure it with perpetual herbage
We dine in the spectacle and sexual urges
Forgetting a purpose and decaying away
Decaying away
Decaying away
Decaying away
Decaying away
Decay
We stand
We watch
We all decay away
Away
We stand
We fall
We all decay away
Away
We stand
We watch
We all decay away
Away
We stand
We fall
We all decay away
Away
We built so much stuff man
Tearing down buildings to build bigger buildings
Throwing out furniture and electronics and clothing
All perfectly functional because it was the wrong color
Or because it had a dent or a tear or needed to be fixed
But nothing was fixable
Everything was disposable
If something was broken you got a new one, it was cheaper
Soon it seemed everything was broken and nothing lasted