Empire歌词

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[00:00.78]Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
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[00:08.29]Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da-dum
[00:14.39]I've seen the best minds of my generation
[00:19.25]Packaged, shipped, and sold
[00:23.65]Numbers change color
[00:26.44]As the young become old
[00:31.59]And I can see why
[00:34.23]But I don't know how
[00:39.24]Thousands can bury
[00:41.82]Their brains in the ground
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[01:09.85]Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-da-da-dum
[01:15.96]I've seen the best minds of my generation
[01:20.75]Packaged, shipped, and sold
[01:25.45]Numbers change color
[01:27.69]As the young become old
[01:32.73]And I can see why
[01:35.73]But I don't know how
[01:40.80]Thousands can bury
[01:43.20]Their brains in the ground
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[01:48.51]Da-da-da-dum-dum-dum-da-dum
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[02:19.21]"Angelheaded hipsters
[02:21.09]burning for the ancient heavenly connection
[02:23.79]to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night
[02:27.56]Who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed
[02:29.83]and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness
[02:33.44]of cold-water flats floating across
[02:35.09]the tops of cities contemplating jazz
[02:38.94]Who passed through universities with radiant cool eyes
[02:42.37]hallucinating Arkansas and Blake-light tragedy
[02:45.91]among the scholars of money and war"
[02:48.45]I've seen the best minds of my generation
[02:53.51]Packaged, shipped, and sold
[02:57.35]Numbers change color
[02:59.89]As the young become old
[03:04.89]And I can see why
[03:07.75]But I don't know how
[03:12.56]Thousands can bury
[03:15.43]Their brains in the ground
[03:20.19]"And who therefore
[03:21.93]ran through the icy streets obsessed with a sudden flash"