Flash Delirium

By MGMT

On Congratulations

Released on March 23, 2010

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[Verse 1]

Mild apprehension

Blank dreams of the coming fun

Distort the odds of a turnaround

Gut screams out next to none

So turn it on, tune it in, and stay inert


[Verse 2]

You say, "I've got the backbone"

The back way to escape the gun

Climbing a tree with a missing limb

And not saving anyone

And now it hurts to stay at home and see flash


[Chorus 1]

The mirror ball's throwing mold

And you can't get a grip if there's nothing to hold

You see the flash catch a white lily laugh and wilt

And if you must smash a glass first fill it to the hilt


[Bridge 1]

Plants, as far as I know, are still

Still bending towards the light

And if we dance until the heart explodes

It will make this place ignite

And even if this hall collapses

I can stand by my pillar of hope

It's just a case of flash delirium


[Bridge 2]

Here's a growing culture deep inside a corpse

Ages stuck together, takin' it to the source

Timeless desperation, pictures on a screen scream

"Hey, people, what does it mean?"


[Bridge 3]

Comfort keeps us nice

So quick to donate everything (nothing arrives)

Die wolken drifting blinding smiles circling (einkreisen)

And time's tingling spines

Attaching hands to floor

The rosy-tinted flash


[Chorus 2]

The hot dog's getting cold

And you'll never be as good as the Rolling Stones

Watch the birds in the airport gathering dirt

Crowd the clean magazine chick lifting up her skirt


[Bridge 4]

Lines when I close my eyes and just (Why close one eye and try to)

Aim blindly at the sun (Pledge allegiance to the sun)

And hear love when the ghosts start singing

(When plastic ghosts start terrorizing everyone)

Terrorizing everyone

And geometric troops aligning

Carried up to the burial mounds with gold

It's a heavy time but your (My earthbound heart is heavy)

Your rhythm makes it light (Your heartbeat keeps things light)

And explode like a violent star keeps (With the violence forever)

Threatening the night

And even if this hall collapses

I can stand by my pillar of hope and trust

That our heads won't bust


[Bridge 5]

66 55 red battleships

Forty earthlike planets

Three holes, two tits

One fork in its side

Zero tears in their eyes


[Outro]

Sue the spiders, sink the Welsh, stab your Facebook, sell, sell, sell

Undercooked, overdone, mass adulation not so funny

Poisoned honey, pseudo-science, silly money, you're my honey!