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Son Locust's second single, "Placebo Baby"
lyrics
V1: Sad drone, sad drone, typing on your telephone//
Media's your alibi, electric thorn in your side//
Milligrams of Miracle-Gro, pound it down now//
Wanna grow flowers, but you still don't know how.
Livin' out the bottle, livin' out the bottle//
Livin' at the bottom, at the bottom of the barrel with the mirror//
You know, the meds don't make it any goddamn clearer.
CHORUS:
Placebo baby, are you thorns or are you honey?//
You don't know, you don't know//
Control group dummy, opinions all hazy//
You're born and labeled crazy, your tongue is a sugar-coat//
& you don't know how to love outside the hurricane//
cuz all you can hear is your pain when the wind dies//
So rock-a-bye baby, swallow it all//
The boughs are a-breaking and the cradle is gonna fall.
V2: Talk to your trees, talk to your trees//
When you can hear them past the chemicals, they say//
You're living like a disease, and you can't disagree//
Cuz your smile is contagious, you spread your affection//
But treat your heart like infection, is it love or self-destruction?//
You can call it what you want to baby.
CHORUS:
V3: Break down your walls, break down your walls//
You memory's a shelf, you're scared if you reach for it you'll fall//
There's a shoebox full of old letters, take it down now//
Build yourself a home from them, and burn it to the ground now//
Cuz you don't need their words any more.
CHORUS:
credits
released December 9, 2017
All instrumentation/vocals/composition by Dustin Sipes.
Recorded/mixed/mastered by Dustin Sipes.
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