Automatic Youth

By Alex Ebert

On I vs I

Released on June 12, 2019

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[Verse 1]

I’m just depressed

Heaven, without you

Crush your sweet ice, you just too cool

Diamonds and fear


[Chorus]

Automatic youth, my symptomatic haze

I’m dead that way, I guess I’m just dead that way, right on

Automatic youth, my symptomatic haze

I’m dead that way, I guess I’m just dead that way


[Post-Chorus]

But her heart has a spirit

If you listen close, you can hear it

And it’s something more than when horny

‘Cause you’re something like a discovery

And it moves you like no other

What a frailty to be discovered


[Interlude]

Rewind time


[Verse 2]

I loved you

Who am I kidding with the past tense

Still love you in your absence

Now our daughter asking why I was absent

So when explaining why to our smart kid

Standing on top of the carcass of a flaming lie

Tell her fame is why, I was trying to be like a famous guy

Came inside, baby’s mine

Laying beside you, the baby inside you

I was playing this guitar

Zoom out, one year later

Gloom is rushing down your moon cheeks

Raining now

Explaining why I wasn’t around

Claiming I wasn’t a father to my daughter

Painted lies on my tainted hide

I thought to tell her all she could point at was manifested from joints that I sang

And by the way, how’s that hot water, food and roof under that raining sky?

Shit, now I’m being an asshole in a castle

Sorry, lame was I

Mainly I just wanna be cool, trill, real family ties

On acid, laughing

Sound good, hope it happen

And for this angel, you to thank

My two cents in the bank


[Chorus]

Automatic youth, my symptomatic haze

I’m dead that way, I guess I’m just dead that way, right on

Automatic youth, my symptomatic haze

I’m dead that way, I guess I’m just dead that way


[Post-Chorus]

But my heart has a spirit

If you listen close, you can hear it

And it’s something more than when horny

‘Cause I’m something like a discovery

And it moves you like no other

What a frailty to be discovered