The Continuous Life

By 311

On Transistor

Released on August 5, 1997

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[Verse 1]

When things are outta whack and they might collapse

And at the end of the day you still can’t relax

And physically you ache like a cavity feelin’ the bind

On your mind and the rest of your body

Listen to your heartbeat flow and imagine

Become Jackson Pollack air brush Chinese dragons

On a sky blue conversion van or an electra

Buick of the mind full of luminous matter


[Pre-Chorus 1]

And slowly all the pressure recedes and you stop to decay

Naturally think clearly

Ultimately though your grace will give way

To traffic jams, submachine guns in hand

City red-necks who think like the omega man

Feelin’ the extremes of the times we’re livin’

Stockpile Spaghetti-o’s and Cheerios

Plannin’ to survive that fall-out shit


[Chorus]

It’s not ambiguous, it be continuous

It’s all about us, it’s for real my man

The continuous life, there is no end

Movin’ through life, movin’ through death

It’s not ambiguous, it be continuous

It’s all about us, it’s for real my man

The continuous life, there is no end

Movin’ through life, movin’ through death


[Verse 2]

My radio emits a signal form

A loud noise, the kind of which I’ve never heard before

I scan the dial for more stations but all I get

Is an eerie feelin’ I’m not dreaming’ this is the real dealin'

There’s nothin like this trance I’m caught in a daze

'Cause I’m finally out of my body the blue lights are ablaze

Yeah I’m really amazed and feelin’ so light, that’s right

Lift off and I’m into the sky


[Pre-Chorus 2]

As if a hologram were created to shift my consciousness

Changed again and I’m flung in the rift

Yeah, I wanna be free I wanna do right

I move through the portal to be purified


[Chorus]

It’s not ambiguous, it be continuous

It’s all about us, it’s for real my man

The continuous life, there is no end

Movin’ through life, movin’ through death

It’s not ambiguous, it be continuous

It’s all about us, it’s for real my man

The continuous life, there is no end

Movin’ through life, movin’ through death


[Outro]

When we shed the skin, we’d be continuous

Catch the feelin’, you’re for real

The continuous life, there is no end

Movin’ through life, movin’ through death