| Original Lyrics The heart is a bloom Shoots up through the stony ground There's no room No space to rent in this town You're out of luck And the reason that you had to care The traffic is stuck And you're not moving anywhere You thought you'd found a friend To take you out of this place Someone you could lend a hand In return for grace It's a beautiful day Sky falls, you feel like It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away You're on the road But you've got no destination You're in the mud In the maze of her imagination You love this town Even if that doesn't ring true You've been all over And it's been all over you It's a beautiful day Don't let it get away It's a beautiful day Touch me Take me to that other place Teach me I know I'm not a hopeless case See the world in green and blue See China right in front of you See the canyons broken by cloud See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out See the Bedouin fires at night See the oil fields at first light And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth After the flood all the colors came out It was a beautiful day Don't let it get away Beautiful day Touch me Take me to that other place Reach me I know I'm not a hopeless case What you don't have you don't need it now What you don't know you can feel it somehow What you don't have you don't need it now Don't need it now Was a beautiful day |
Altered Lyrics
The lava’s abloom Shoots up through the stony ground
There’s no room
No space to run in this town
You’re kind of fucked
And there’s good reason for you to swear
The traffic is stuck
And there’s hot lava everywhere
You thought you’d found a fort
And you’d be safe in that place
But could only hide and live
In return for brains
It’s Volcano Day
Rocks fall, you know that
It’s Volcano Day
And you can’t get away
You’re on the run
But you can’t escape molten rock
You’re black with ash
You wish it was your imagination
The sky is black
And filling with poisonous gas
It’s largely sulphur
And it’s getting inside you
It’s Volcano Day
And you can’t get away
It’s Volcano Day
Too late.
There’s no escaping your fate
Too bad.
You should have gone to Trinidad
See the world in black and red
See magma right in front of you
See fissures form in the ground
See the volcano belch black smoke out
See the boulders bounce t’ward you
See animals catching alight.
And see the sun how it’s getting bigger
Pretty soon it will swallow the Earth.
It was Volcano Day
You couldn’t get away
Volcano Day
Too late.
There was no escaping your fate.
Too bad.
Why bother going to Baghdad?
Your limbs are gone you can’t use them now
Your organs are damaged, you’re bleeding out
Your limbs are gone you can’t use them now
Can’t use them now Was Volcano Day
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