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MD 404 (I'm Not From the Future, You're From the Past)

from Swimming In My Car // Good Luck, Bad Decisions by The Formaldehide

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climate change post-apocalypse

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We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.

Wanted to take a trip to Miami before it became a lost city
And Atlanta acquired beachfront property
(New orleans has surely drowned)
Rehoboth is a mermaids land
404's buried in murder sand
The whole delmarva sunk right under me
(The bay bridge has fallen down)

I sit in my car when I'm trapped inside
The storm threatens to bury me alive
If I had a sun roof I might try
To find what's abandoned our grey skies
Breathe in cold air, exhale life
The cost I ignored for all this time
Where's the family I had forgotten to cry for
There's no one left for me to die for

We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.
Don't fuck with me in the driver's seat
If this steering wheel moves we'll be the trees
It used to never snow in D.C.
Now I'm stuck in line at snow bank

The richest lied "it doesnt exist"
They threw our money in the final ditch
The tallest sea wall, the largest raft
They need express lanes, avoid the crash
When truth comes flooding in take mortality to task
The limits at the precipice, the dice long since cast
Bail us out with paper cups
May the meek float backside up
Fortify the levees with our blood
Constituency under mud
You should've changed it yesterday, tomorrows coming fast
I'm not from the future, you're from the past

We tried to escape without trying
Now everyone knows the earth is dying
Our coastline is sunken history
It used to never snow in D.C.
Don't fuck with me in the driver's seat
If this steering wheel moves we'll be the trees
It used to never snow in D.C.
Now I'm stuck in line at snow bank

I was waiting on a collision but I guess it never came
(One degree deficit)
Only the best equipped ones survive change they say
(Two degree deficit)
I was waiting on a collision but I guess it never came
(Three degree deficit)
Only the best equipped ones survive change they say
(Four degree deficit)

There was nothing more that could be done
We didn't want to try anything else
There was nothing more that could be done
We didn't want to try anything else

(There was nothing more that could be done)
It's only four degrees, it's only four degrees
(We didn't want to try anything else)
(There was nothing more that could be done)
So tally up the bodies
(We didn't want to try anything else)

Tally up the bodies

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from Swimming In My Car // Good Luck, Bad Decisions, released March 17, 2023

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