Flicker

By Theocracy

On Mosaic

Released on October 13, 2023

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[Intro]

Sometimes, I feel like I just don't belong here

Like a shadow cast from a time long past

I’m swallowed up and dissipating

I feel so out of phase and so invisible

It's disorienting, alienating

Little stranger, welcome to the world


[Verse 1]

Do you ever feel like you just don't belong here?

Me, I’ve always known this isn't home

I'm starting to feel so disconnected

A stranger in a strange and growing ever stranger land

In a world that I don't understand

So misdirected


[Pre-Chorus]

Trapped inside a world that buried Mozart in a pauper's grave

And said, "Givе us Barabbas"

Crucified Christ and turned away

Electеd fools to lead us

Rejecting truth

See us spiraling down

Shall we enter the last days?


[Chorus]

Out of place and out of time

Oh, tell me, what's the value of a life

In a modern day and age

Where monsters cling to evil ways?

I can't shake the feeling, I just don't belong

But we flicker for a moment

Flicker for a moment, then we’re gone


[Verse 2]

I don’t belong here

I don't belong here

Pleasure slaves indulging every manner of perversion

If technology’s the god we feed

Our sacrifice is full submersion

Life and friendships ended over stupid politicians

All the rhetoric and superstitions

Life on a screen


[Pre-Chorus]

A simulated world that buried Mozart in a pauper's grave

And said, "Give us Barabbas"

Crucified Christ and turned away

This world feels so synthetic

Lost apathetic

While tragedy vampires drink blood of the fallen


[Chorus]

Out of place and out of time

Oh tell me, what's the value of a life

In a modern day and age

Where monsters cling to evil ways?

I can't shake the feeling I just don’t belong

But we flicker for a moment

Flicker for a moment, then we're gone


[Bridge]

Centuries of deep corruption

Led to compromise

Practicing our counterfeit morality, the great disguise

And I don't belong here

I'm just a weary traveler

This world has lost sight of the value of a life


[Guitar Solo]


[Chorus]

Out of place and out of time

Oh tell me, what's the value of a life

In a modern day and age

Where monsters cling to evil ways

I can't shake the feeling I just don't belong

But we flicker for a moment

Flicker for a moment, then we're—