Automatic

Automatic - The Dismemberment Plan

I don't no what brings you 'round again

I don't no what sends you on your way

When smart

It's not for me to say

There's a bright light right around the bend

See it bathe us both in that fluorescent glow

So monstrous and final

So monstrous and final

I could see you through the dirty waves

Smiling like a vampire

As you disappeared beneath the whitecaps

But a man can't live for what he saves

I could feel my toes curl through the yellow

Sand as I watched you slip away

Once again the politics of common sense

You do and I don't

I could tell you it's not true but what's the use

It's automatic

Caught in between

Was a star that once burned crazy red

An ashen globe that spins with

Dead momentum lost in absolute space

Even as this wavelength pulses dread

Linger like the cold burn of electric shocks

So slow to fade away

Once again the fire works of bad ideas

You will and I won't

Light the sky with long-gone hate that

Comes from where it's automatic

Caught in between