[00:00.00]Society Trance (Album Version) - Ric Ocasek
[00:11.12]I was walking by the ocean's lash
[00:14.34]And it was like motion from
[00:15.41]The stars and light had gone
[00:21.93]Alien symbols and catfish cracking
[00:30.96]Lovers and outsiders divorced
[00:33.20]From the uncaring world
[00:34.33]Are sometimes viewed as heroes
[00:37.97]Or some antiheroes
[00:42.20]Absorbed or tormented by loneliness
[00:44.82]And the inability to communicate
[00:49.15]Decomposed by the system
[00:50.39]With no power to change it
[01:01.08]Trying to get upstairs
[01:02.73]The nightmare's humming
[01:07.75]And bloody nosed bums
[01:09.49]On puke stained pavements
[01:11.22]Cough up chyme snot and liquid s**t
[01:15.32]On their pants and under their fingernails
[01:18.34]Imagined maniacs with blistering lips
[01:22.76]Scream into cement building doorways
[01:32.50]Just watching the society trance
[01:37.61]Just watching the society bash
[01:42.52]Just watching the society crash
[01:50.75]Lightning fools the night
[01:52.75]The irredeemable night birds fly
[01:58.29]But still by windows some are running
[02:03.53]While transatlantic doll boys sleep
[02:09.95]Shadows drip circle swim mystery riddles
[02:15.36]Freedom is no direction
[02:19.33]Cause the heart of the matter
[02:21.28]Is all in your head
[02:27.54]Cause the past and the future
[02:28.77]Are illusions
[02:30.16]They exist in the present
[02:32.44]When you're thinking about them
[02:35.48]Through teeter rose inseams
[02:38.29]And wayward grips
[02:41.40]Like a mosquito's insistence
[02:47.34]Lightning fools the night
[02:57.45]You're watching the society trance
[03:02.43]You're watching the society bash
[03:07.29]You're watching the society crash
[03:17.75]Watching the society trance
[03:22.75]Watching the society bash
[03:27.69]Watching the society crash
[03:47.85]You won't be understood
[03:50.45]But always nearly praised or blamed