The Shins - Australia [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Verse 1]
Born to multiply?
Born to gaze into night skies
All you want’s one more Saturday

Well look here until then
They’re gonna buy your life's time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
'Till the day

[Pre-Chorus 1]
You come in doing cartwheels
We all crawl out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes

[Chorus 1]

You’d be damned to be one of us girl
Faced with a dodo’s conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing happened every time I try

[Verse 2]

A dual-tone on the wall
A selfless fool who hoped he’d save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands

You keep 'em folded in your lap
Raise them up to beg for scraps
You know he's holding you down with the tips of his fingers
Just the same

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Well you'll be pulled from the ocean
But just a minute too late
Or changed by a potion
You’ll find a handsome young mate for you to love

[Chorus 2]
You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes
You know you'll trade your life for any ordinary Joe
We’ll do it now or grow old
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold

[Bridge]
Been alone since you were twenty-one
You haven't laughed since January
You try and make of this as so much fun
But we know it to be quite contrary

[Chorus 3]
Dare to be one of us girl
Faced with the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
Yeah, Himmler in your coat you don't know how long I've been
Watching the lantern dim, starved of oxygen
So give me your hand and let's jump out the window