"On The Brink Of Extinction" lyrics
On the brink of extinction
Your awareness of urgency finally finds a focus
You see no point in being angry about the past
The future ain't even got you in its plans — at least in its current form
All there is, is this now just a couple more nows
You notice a sweet taste in that now that had eluded you the whole time
On the brink of extinction
Your definition of family stretches
Priorities find their final form
Your palate becomes refined and childlike
A sommelier of fine whiskies fried food corn syrup and pain
And you know what the best cup — anything you ever had — is the one in your hand
On the brink of extinction
On the brink of extinction
The songs of your foremothers
Which once produced the most dizzying eye-rolls now take center stage
They get their lifetime achievement awards
You remember they have been a warm blanket and a north star for all your wanderlust
You start emptying your draft folder
Not on some scorched earth — that's why you're here
Naw on some massive deletion — who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
On the brink of extinction
Forgiveness feels as involuntary as breathing
All intramural beefs feel silly
Why would I spend my last moments fighting with me
You turn into an anthropologist
Your conservation season is behind you
Activism is for the younger knees
I already enjoyed my low dropping
I done backed this thang up enough
On the brink of extinction
Loneliness finds the strangest source of comfort
Reflection regret reimagining
On the brink of extinction
Your concerns hold a yard sale
You decide what is reserved for your loved ones
What can be given what can be thrown away
What is heirloom what is heritage
What is hearsay what is heresy
Which of these matter most
And why am I comparing the two
You can have it all
On the brink of extinction
You embrace the ever climbing spiraling circle
Soon you become all that follows
You become what is taken
You finally see clearly — nuance and conundrum
Mourning and celebration in the same place at the same time
Your sense of wonder power curiosity explodes
You have been forced to be a silver-lining hunter
Comforter and mascot
Last of and ancestor to
The choice is yours and yours alone — what is valuable enough to pass on
To survey the wreckage of your own destruction
Salvage what devastation left in its wake
Develop wisdom quicker than you were ready for
Mourn alone and inspire together
Direct and console
Release and reinvest
Prepare and perpetuate — since procreation is out the question
Because some outside force
Some heartless colonial imperial parasite
Concerned only with their own posterity
Pushed you to the brink of extinction
You are made to let go of what was and embrace what will be
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Your awareness of urgency finally finds a focus
You see no point in being angry about the past
The future ain't even got you in its plans — at least in its current form
All there is, is this now just a couple more nows
You notice a sweet taste in that now that had eluded you the whole time
On the brink of extinction
Your definition of family stretches
Priorities find their final form
Your palate becomes refined and childlike
A sommelier of fine whiskies fried food corn syrup and pain
And you know what the best cup — anything you ever had — is the one in your hand
On the brink of extinction
On the brink of extinction
The songs of your foremothers
Which once produced the most dizzying eye-rolls now take center stage
They get their lifetime achievement awards
You remember they have been a warm blanket and a north star for all your wanderlust
You start emptying your draft folder
Not on some scorched earth — that's why you're here
Naw on some massive deletion — who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
On the brink of extinction
Forgiveness feels as involuntary as breathing
All intramural beefs feel silly
Why would I spend my last moments fighting with me
You turn into an anthropologist
Your conservation season is behind you
Activism is for the younger knees
I already enjoyed my low dropping
I done backed this thang up enough
On the brink of extinction
Loneliness finds the strangest source of comfort
Reflection regret reimagining
On the brink of extinction
Your concerns hold a yard sale
You decide what is reserved for your loved ones
What can be given what can be thrown away
What is heirloom what is heritage
What is hearsay what is heresy
Which of these matter most
And why am I comparing the two
You can have it all
On the brink of extinction
You embrace the ever climbing spiraling circle
Soon you become all that follows
You become what is taken
You finally see clearly — nuance and conundrum
Mourning and celebration in the same place at the same time
Your sense of wonder power curiosity explodes
You have been forced to be a silver-lining hunter
Comforter and mascot
Last of and ancestor to
The choice is yours and yours alone — what is valuable enough to pass on
To survey the wreckage of your own destruction
Salvage what devastation left in its wake
Develop wisdom quicker than you were ready for
Mourn alone and inspire together
Direct and console
Release and reinvest
Prepare and perpetuate — since procreation is out the question
Because some outside force
Some heartless colonial imperial parasite
Concerned only with their own posterity
Pushed you to the brink of extinction
You are made to let go of what was and embrace what will be
Who needs luggage in paradise
Who needs luggage in paradise
