Elective Amnesia Songtext
von Rise Against

We don′t sleep very much
These triggers ache for the touch
Where's the strength we relied on?
Here alone, like a crutch
Maybe that′s what keeps us up
All night with a light on

Howling screams simulate
Lives that no longer take place
Can this be what we've become?
Paper thin, overweight
Pills to arouse or sedate
Still we don't know what we want

We can let go, can′t you see?
To lose control is to be
Finally free

First a spark, then a flame, now a fire
We explode
Into the darkest of nights


Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead
Now they′ll know
With everything comes a price

And each day we are torn
Between the right and the wrong
Between life and convenience
While you sleep, while complain
There's always channels to change
It′s like elective amnesia

As we grow older in this place
Let's just start over, let′s erase
What they've made

First a spark, then a flame, now a fire
We explode
Into the darkest of nights

Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead
Now they′ll know
With everything comes a price

It could be minutes away
It could be hours or days
Before the bottom falls out
Before the ground gives way


Into this debt we are born
A debt we try to repay
And yet we blacken the sky
Smoke rising out of the flames
Now they'll know

(First a spark, then a flame, now a fire)
We explode
Into the darkest of nights

(Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead)
Now they'll know
With everything comes a price

(First a spark, then a flame, now a fire)
We explode, we explode
With everything comes a price

(Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead)
We explode
We explode