Simple Science (EP)

The Get Up Kids Simple Science (EP) Lyrics
1.Your Petty Pretty Things

All of your pretty things
Your petty pretty things
are gone
the ground beneath your feet
isn't the stable earth you thought

A song so sweetly sung
as if the offer would rescind
credit all firsthand accounts
With need to write about and spin
mistakes
they're all mistakes
they're all mistakes

But on the way down
On the way down
Before you can see
But all the way down
You laugh with the pieces
You just can't explain it all away
Away the damage
And after you atone
This is all you have to show

All of your pretty things
Those petty pretty things
You lost
Discerning tastes agree
The who you used to be
Was awful, to be true

But now we see you
Now we see you
On the way down
All the way down
Before you can see
But all the way down
You laugh with the pieces
You just can't explain it all away
Away the damage
And after you atone
This is all you have to show

'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'
'Does it seem to be persisting?'


2.Tommy Gentle

Long night
Just to
Disappoint the one who
Loves most
Anything you lay your
Hands on
Golden like a Midas
But tonight it turns to stone.

And now that the photographs are gone
And now that the lights are all blown
And now that the house has gone home
Where do you go?

Just so
Hollow
Fall into the bottle.
Keeps me
Company
But ask me
Is this a burden or a bounty?
That just
Keeps the roles I play.

And now that the photographs are gone
And now that the lights are all blown
And now that the house has gone home
Where do you wanna go?
Just where do you wanna go?
I guess I was so wrong.
I guess this was so wrong.
And I gotta face my greatest fear.
Maybe it can't be here


3.How You're Bound

Save the SOS
Don't wanna know.
Lost a fool contest
Punched in your bones
On the way home.
Hold you up
You fall down.
Hold you up
You fall down.
This isn't just
The way you were
How you're bound.

Swear you could not say
They're not the same.
Just get through the day
Without a shame
What it became.
Would you learn?
You fall down.
Hold you up
You fall down.
This isn't just
The way you were
But how you're bound