"Can't Hold Your Breath" lyrics

"Can't Hold Your Breath"

It's pouring in California, swimming cars down avenues
Plastic islands in the ocean, and we're drinking it too
We ate through the Auk, now we're chewing through trees
Poisoned the Ohio, we're a mean disease

We've gotten so hungry, hungry hands, hungry eyes
We're worse than the locust, no twig left behind
We dig up what's buried, it's dark what we do
Exhume all the fossils, burn skeletons for fuel

You can't hold your breath for the rest of your life
You can't hold your breath for the rest of your life
This is the rest of your life

We drained eleven plants plus into the Delaware
They say it's safe to drink the water, it isn't, but who cares?
It's pouring in California, more brush for wilder fires
The amount of chemical in the air's getting higher

You can't hold your breath for the rest of your life
You can't hold your breath for the rest of your life
It's not safer inside

We'll all have cancer, don't matter who smoked
You think it's tough now to swallow, wait till it scrapes against your throat
Real estate's going quick, the migration's begun
But wherever we live will be too lethal to live on

You can't hold your breath for the rest of your life
There's nowhere to run, there's nowhere to hide
It's not safer inside

We're running out of time


Writer(s): Amanda Shires
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