Society Trance-Ric Ocasek

[ti:Society Trance] [ar:Ric Ocasek] [al:Troublizing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Society Trance - Ric Ocasek [00:11.12]I was walking by the ocean's lash [00:12.91] [00:14.34]And it was like motion from [00:15.41]The stars and light had gone [00:17.10] [00:21.93]Alien symbols and catfish cracking [00:24.12] [00:30.96]Lovers and outsiders divorced [00:33.20]From the uncaring world [00:34.33]Are sometimes viewed as heroes [00:36.49] [00:37.97]Or some antiheroes [00:39.16] [00:42.20]Absorbed or tormented by loneliness [00:44.06] [00:44.82]And the inability to communicate [00:46.40] [00:49.15]Decomposed by the system [00:50.39]With no power to change it [00:54.30] [01:01.08]Trying to get upstairs [01:01.88] [01:02.73]The nightmare's humming [01:04.82] [01:07.75]And bloody nosed bums [01:09.49]On puke stained pavements [01:11.22]Cough up chyme snot and liquid shit [01:13.81] [01:15.32]On their pants and under their fingernails [01:17.58] [01:18.34]Imagined maniacs with blistering lips [01:22.76]Scream into cement building doorways [01:25.55] [01:32.50]Just watching the society trance [01:34.93] [01:37.61]Just watching the society bash [01:40.11] [01:42.52]Just watching the society crash [01:45.41] [01:50.75]Lightning fools the night [01:52.75]The irredeemable night birds fly [01:55.20] [01:58.29]But still by windows some are running [02:01.12] [02:03.53]While transatlantic doll boys sleep [02:06.23] [02:09.95]Shadows drip circle swim mystery riddles [02:13.21] [02:15.36]Freedom is no direction [02:18.01] [02:19.33]Cause the heart of the matter [02:21.28]Is all in your head [02:22.80] [02:27.54]Cause the past and the future [02:28.77]Are illusions [02:30.16]They exist in the present [02:31.52] [02:32.44]When you're thinking about them [02:34.11] [02:35.48]Through teeter rose inseams [02:38.29]And wayward grips [02:39.52] [02:41.40]Like a mosquito's insistence [02:43.66] [02:47.34]Lightning fools the night [02:49.22] [02:57.45]You're watching the society trance [03:00.01] [03:02.43]You're watching the society bash [03:05.26] [03:07.29]You're watching the society crash [03:10.20] [03:17.75]Watching the society trance [03:19.76] [03:22.75]Watching the society bash [03:25.48] [03:27.69]Watching the society crash [03:29.96] [03:47.85]You won't be understood [03:49.47] [03:50.45]But always nearly praised or blamed