Name: Running with Scissors
Duration: P00H03M33S
Description: The title track, “Running with Scissors”, is a haunting lament for humanity’s (future) collapse in the wake of climate change and political failure, which somehow manages to morph into a kind of celebration at the end. The track contains explicit lyrics; a radio version is available.

Running with Scissors

from Running with Scissors EP by Dark Soul Safari

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The title track, “Running with Scissors”, is a haunting lament for humanity’s (future) collapse in the wake of climate change and political failure, which somehow manages to morph into a kind of celebration at the end. The track contains explicit lyrics; a radio version is available.

lyrics

Green has turned to grey now, all the butterflies are gone
Everyone has left this place, I am all alone
The cockroach and the crow, it’s their world now
Said goodbye to forests, said goodbye to snow

Hard to say exactly when it all went wrong
We were running with scissors for far too long
“Make America Great Again” became our final song
As we scrambled for the exits in the Great Extinction throng

The billionaires all departed in their lifeboats to Mars
Left their bunkers in the desert and set off for the stars
They looked so cool at Canaveral, good luck to them
Five years in space it will be the same shit again

Forgive me if I decline all invitations to connect
What’s the point when the whole place is wrecked?
Too many lessons we refused to learn
So I wear my welding goggles and I watch it burn

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from Running with Scissors EP, released July 20, 2022

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Dark Soul Safari London, UK

Adriaan van Heerden grew up in a small town in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Coming from a musical family, Adriaan took lessons in several instruments and composed music from an early age.

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