Will Wood – White Noise (Ukulele)

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They paint the walls with colors that you're not meant to notice.

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Beiges and browns, off-whites and grayscales,

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Fluorescent lights to shine on the eggshell ground.

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Now you're lying face down,

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You blend into the background,

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Of white noise.

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They fill the halls with tunes you can't get into your head.

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4/4 and Dorian, wrote 'em for ignoring 'em, yeah

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It sorta sounds like a retro top 40 but wrong.

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You're not meant to sing along,

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It isn't that kind of song,

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It's white noise.

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But... if you listen closely I swear,

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To God, I swear.

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  You can hear the ocean if you

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Hold it up to your ear, here

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White noise...

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(Listen close between the waves.)

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White noise...

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(You can hear the ocean through your wake.)

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White noise...

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(Listen close between the waves.)

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How many times has this happened to you?

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You go to take out the laundry, and you drop it, and it falls into a black hole.

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How many times has this happened to you?

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You're straining your pasta, and your eyeballs fall out into it?

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How many times has this happened to you?

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There's a cat, and it won't tell you its name.

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You don't recognize the cat, it's not your cat. You don't have a cat.

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But it's here, and it won't tell you

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what you need to know, to properly assess the situation.

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'Cause the cat is much larger than any cat you've seen before.

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It's a bear.

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How many times has this happened to you?

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You die. And then are reborn again, into that mind of a grasshopper

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Where you die once more, and are reborn again, into the mind of your mom.

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How many times has this happened to you?

C
It's high-fidelity, lossless quality.

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It's MP, one, two, three, four, five, F-L-A-C.

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It's polyphonic, the new Philharmonic,

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With a Juilliard doctorate, live from the Metropolitan.

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It's theoretically dense, it's impressive.

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It's microtonal, and it challenges Western

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notions of art, it's post-avant-garde.

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It's going places 'cause it comes from the heart.

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And it's personality's a lack of identity,

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It makes no statement, but does so quite loudly.

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It's an aesthetic, I mean, an anesthetic.

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And it's an experience for your seventh sense, yes.

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Does it cure cancer? (Yes, it cures cancer!)

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Wow! It begs the question just to tell you the answer.

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Do you believe in the power of silence?

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Well, if you walk the walk, can you talk more-

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White noise...

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Listen close between the waves.

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White noise...

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White noise...

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Listen close between the waves.

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White noise...

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You fill your head with thoughts you find you can't even feel.

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Try to make room in your skull, but it's full of them.

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All of the things that you think and then think about thinking.

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I know it's hard.

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But they're not who you are,

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They're white noise.