Song Lyric

CONGRATULATION

Song by                : MGMT

Dead in the water

 It's not a paid vacation

 The sons and daughters

 Of city officials attend demonstrations

 It's hardly sink or swim

 When all is well if the tickets sell

 Out with the whimper

 It's not a blaze of glory

 You look down from your temple

 As people endeavor to make it a story

 And chisel a marble word

 but all is lost if it's never heard

 But I've got someone to make reports

 And tell me how my money's spent

 To book my stays and draw my blinds

 So I can't tell what's really there

 And all I need's a great big congratulations

 I'll keep your dreams

 You pay attention for me

 As strange as it seems,

 I'd rather dissolve

 Than have you ignore me

 The ground may be moving fast

 But I tied my boots to a broken mast

 The difference is clear

 You throw it in your cauldron

 Rust and veneer, dusk and dawn

 Steinways and Baldwins

 you start with a simple stock

 of all the waste and salt to taste

 But damn my luck and damn these friends

 That keep on combing back their smiles

 I save my grace with half-assed guilt

 And lay down the quilt upon the lawn

 Spread my arms and soak up

 "Congratulations"