It Doesn't Mean A Thing-The Airborne Toxic Event

[ti:It Doesn't Mean A Thing] [ar:The Airborne Toxic Event] [al:All At Once] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Doesn't Mean A Thing - The Airborne Toxic Event [00:03.60]I never knew my mother [00:04.85]I can't say it was so bad [00:07.06]She was still a girl of seventeen the night she met my dad [00:11.25]He was just six months out of chino [00:13.62]Trying his hardest to stay clean [00:16.00]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing [00:18.81] [00:20.62]Like doves sleeping with broken wings [00:22.77] [00:25.15]In a bed fit for a king [00:28.02] [00:30.96]It didn't mean a thing [00:32.20] [00:33.33]It was shot gun forest wedding [00:35.70]And they forgot to bring the gun [00:37.71]As they were busy counting promises [00:39.90]To the children not yet born [00:42.65]No one could afford the ride [00:44.21]Everyone hitched up with the 101 [00:46.02] [00:46.77]And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing [00:49.65] [00:51.21]Like doves dancing with broken wings [00:53.83] [00:55.64]With a view fit for a king [00:58.39] [01:01.90]It didn't mean a thing [01:03.33] [01:04.52]It was a loneliness [01:05.71]They would confess [01:06.90]Like the world had gone bad I guess [01:08.96]So they hold hands and look into the eyes of god [01:11.83] [01:13.14]They'd say tell me why'd ya hide from us [01:15.83]Why'd ya fill the world with wickedness [01:17.33]Why'd ya spare us from the grace but not the rot [01:20.65] [01:23.96]Now my dad says f**k the details [01:26.58]Just keep your head down hard [01:28.52]Ya got to find yourself alone before you'll find the eyes of God [01:32.90]You make broke and scared and out of jail [01:35.34]Out the flesh of your own heartstrings [01:37.96]But you were born to be a peasant not a king [01:40.90] [01:41.65]So just stop acting like your running from something [01:44.77] [01:46.21]Ya gonna leave the way you came without a thing [01:49.27] [01:50.58]With your heart tattooed and your mind tied to a string [01:54.40] [01:55.21]You just sing and you sing and you sing [01:57.71] [02:01.21]It doesn't mean a thing