I don’t recognize this place anymore
Grew up around the corner, before these lines and borders
but I don’t recognize this place anymore

I ain’t afraid of ghosts
I grew up in a place where they’re takin’ over slow
like death isn’t always the fading of a soul
progress isn’t always related to growth
the first step in building a skyscraper
is digging up a very deep hole...
you ever seen a city melt into a shadow of itself?
you ever feel like there’s a lack of all the magic that we felt
split an atom or a cell like it’s progress
like destruction and creation are the same process
yeah, and our relationship
just ain’t been the same since the chains moved in
.I still remember when
I felt like a million bucks wasn’t worth a cent
your heart is still the only place I want to live
I just can’t afford the rent, yo

I don’t recognize this place anymore
a beautiful blank canvas, after all this color’s been banished
I don’t recognize this place anymore

I ain’t afraid of ghosts
a house can’t be haunted if it never had a soul
but tell me what happens when that house gets sold?
does a spirit shiver when it’s stuck out in the cold?
so this is how the world ends? a casual exorcism
the closing of a story dressed up as the beginnin ’what’s the limit?
here’s to the history we lived in
here’s to the years we were able to resist this
here’s to acid rain as it falls
enveloped in each other as umbrellas dissolve
you’ll caress my skin and I’ll peel it off
until we’re nothin’ but our hearts underneath it all
and then we’ll sell ‘em to developers for cheap and fall
deeply asleep as the concrete just crawls
over the whole earth ‘til all of a sudden
you got this look like a cop sayin’ “you lost or something?”

I don’t recognize this place anymore
so I’ll leave for the last time, and treat every memory as a landmine
‘cause I don’t recognize this place anymore