Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - "You Give Death A Bad Name" (Official Audio)

Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - "You Give Death A Bad Name" (Official Audio)

"A Beginner's Mind" by Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine available on CD, LP, Cassette, & Digital September 24, 2021

Lyrics:

Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain

As you withdraw, you give death a bad name

Can you be stopped, or can evil be slain?

Is there something to be lost to surrender the pain?

You’re just a shade of something betrayed

Watch as you fade into the reservoir

Can you exist, shade of the oculist

No consciousness, less than a metaphor

What was once dead is now coming for you

The television said it’s the right thing to do

Give me a name more than a flame

Can it contain more than a metaphor?

Show me your face give it some breathing space

Feel my embrace, empty the reservoir

Was it for profit or was it for gain

You gave it your all; you gave life a bad name

Sentries trembling voices assembling

Nothing resembling what it had been before

Contamination death to America

Reanimation what are you waiting for

Shot to the skull or a strike to the brain

The cadaver on the cross; you give love a bad name

Can you explain all our divided pain

What still remains after the rigor mortise

Poured gasoline ghost in a dead machine

God save the queen, lessons and metaphors

Hung from a tree, edge of the canopy

All this debris, signals and semaphores

Round them all up, drink from the holy cup

Battered in blood, what are you waiting for?

Jump from the fire into the frying pan

Voice of the choir now you are born again

Gathered in song calling all next of kin

Can do no wrong, perfect American

Follow your dreams into the black and white

Anthropocene, live it up, give a fight

Shot to the heart, God bless America

Failed from the start, what are you waiting for?

Credits:

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE AND SUFJAN STEVENS

©2021 ANGELO DE AUGUSTINE MUSIC/BMI

©2021 SUFJAN STEVENS MUSIC/ASCAP