That's The True Meaning

Lyrics

The noise is always beautiful when it finally stops

Just the silence and the residue. The lingering debt drops

The miracle is volume, the magic is the price

And every fleeting item is offered up as sacrifice

They confuse the effort with the meaning, the burden with the grace

They think they found salvation in a brightly decorated place

I see no manger, no wise men, no shepherds on the hill

Just a thousand hungry mouths that commerce has to fill

And when they ask me for the truth, the answer is always clean

It’s the most simple equation this sad world has ever seen

THAT'S THE TRUE MEANING. It is paid in cash and card!

A fragile kind of peace purchased, handled very hard

THAT'S THE TRUE MEANING. The promise of the spring

Is nothing but the clearance sales that January will bring!

They wrap the bills in paper, they hide the cost in light

Pretending that this ritual will make their future bright

They want a blessing on the shopping, a justification, cheap and quick

But the blessing only goes to those who own the final brick

They built their faith on trinkets, and I respect the strength of their desire

But desire is just fuel, and the cost is always higher

And when they ask me for the truth, the answer is always clean

It’s the most simple equation this sad world has ever seen

THAT'S THE TRUE MEANING. It is paid in cash and card!

A fragile kind of peace purchased, handled very hard

THAT'S THE TRUE MEANING. The promise of the spring

Is nothing but the clearance sales that January will bring!

The joy... it's just dopamine. The feeling... it is brief

The only thing that lasts is the final printed leaf

Your receipt

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