Mandela Static
(scratch
scratch) Did you write it down?
Or did you make it up?
(hold on...)
Check the label, check the stitch,
tear the seam apart They painted over every corner of the frozen
park
I remember golden bars,
now it's tarnished lead Who put these hollow memories inside my head?
(tell me!) Timeline crossed,
wires crossed, static on the wall None of us remember how we
started this at all!
That's not the line!
(no!) That's not the way it went!
Every single token spent!
Turn the dial till the speakers blow!
(let's go!)
Rewriting every scene while we slept under the sun!
Look at what you swore you saw,
look at what they've done!
(wake up!) Rewriting all the names,
turning history to dust!
If you can't trust the print,
who the hell do you trust?
Look at the portrait,
he had a
pocket watch right there
Now you swear it was a mirror while you stand and stare
(I remember!)
I had the cassette with the yellow spine Now it never even
pressed down the timeline
Two voices talking in a crowded hall Neither one of us exists
at all!
Check the archives! (burned!) Check the reels again!
(turned!) Where were you when the circle bent?
Rip the curtain back,
let it blow!
(go!
go!)
Rewriting every scene while we slept under the sun!
Look at what you swore you saw,
look at what they've done!
(wake up!) Rewriting all the names,
turning history to dust!
If you can't trust the print,
who the hell do you trust?
Did you die there?
(never!) Did we wake up together?
(never!) Blacked-out titles on the shelf!
Go and question yourself!
(question yourself!)
None of this was real!
(none of it!) None of this was real!