Текст песни: Basic Song + перевод

You were born in a world without mystery

Every angle caught on tape

And every sound a man could make is now history

Turn away, pretend you’re not listening

To the Rubik’s cube of losers

To the commenters who choose the new hit machine

You want it warm and raw, you want it pure and true

You want the love that they used to feel

You want the ghost of AM radio broadcasting through you

RCA, to the tape machine

A similar distraction

From the days of satisfaction

And it’s too often forgotten this was something that our hero couldn’t get

Just a way to say that you’re sixteen

Melodies of adolescence

Fell out with the obsolescence of tambourines

You want to grab the hand

You want to turn it back

You want to listen to Paint It Black

You want cigarettes at 35 cents a pack

But that’s the basic song

You’ve heard it all along

The greatest hits of yesterday have all passed on

Transubstantiated, the lines redrawn

Nothing is forgotten, and nothing’s gone

The end and the beginning, the basic song

When you feel, the cacophony in the air

That’s unfiltered urban romance

That’s the constant modern parlance of software

Everyone has a symphony in their hair

But when they open their mouths

And the violins come out, it’s a nightmare

Filter out the noise, put your ear to the ground

It’s the love like they used to feel

It’s the sound of your spinal cord being rewound

But that’s the basic song

You’ve heard it all along

The greatest hits of yesterday have all passed on

Transubstantiated, the lines redrawn

Nothing is forgotten, and nothing’s gone

The end and the beginning, the basic song

The greatest hits of yesterday have all passed on

Transubstantiated, the lines redrawn

Nothing is forgotten, and nothing’s gone

The end and the beginning, the basic song

The basic song

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