"Sinking Sands" lyrics

"Sinking Sands"

I was thinking about the sinking sands
And I was thinking about the ancient lands
I was thinking about the radio
It's not a problem that I used to know
I was talking with my friend Max
His mind is made up, isn't turning back
About the things that he often reads
It's just the problem he really believes
He says

Well, I got this feeling
It's a feeling I don't know
And when you start believing
It's a fear of the unknown
Well, I got this feeling
It's a fear of the unknown

He was talking about the sinking sands
He was talking about the ancient lands
He was talking about the radio
It's not a problem that he used to know
He was thinking in Comic Sans
And he was lost in unknown lands
Fun at first but now it's gone astray
It's just a problem and it gets in the way
He says

Well, I got this feeling
It's a feeling I don't know
And when you start believing
It's a fear of the unknown
Well, I got this feeling
It's a feeling I don't know
And when you start believing


Writer(s): Julia Rachel Harden Cumming, Nicholas Anthony Kivlen, Jacob Faber
This is a song about the power of belief and information. It is inspired by podcasts about the paranormal. A lot of the subtext comes from the "fake news" cycle leading up to the 2016 United States presidential election.
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