We Were Never Built to Last - Electric President

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You're on your own now, we're tired of lending hands
A new agenda, it cuts you from all our plans
So get in line boy, and keep that mouth of yours closed
We don't need opinions, just work them hands to bones

We stood in places, watched them tear us apart
Cut us open, and ripped out all our parts
But we kept quiet, we let them have their way
We made our point by having nothing to say

We all broke up right on cue
We'll take you down with us too


Better jump ship, this bastard is sinking fast
Nothing to save here
Our worth has all but passed,
The muddy waters are slippin it in through the grass
The ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin,
The ship, the ship, the ship is sinkin

We sit on our hands and watched
It all fall no one thinks that I I I I I
There's not much worth saving
Just lots of buildings
We concrete the blue skies


And you came and picked us up
You combed our hair, and made us look like people
And we learned to feed ourselves again
We built some homes and filled them full of clones
But we wont wait till you get back
We'll be gone long before you arrive
We were never built to last
But we'd like to tell ya
Thanks for the good times, it was nice to have known ya
We'll all be just fine, and we'll try to write ya
We appreciate the lies, but were done believing you

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Electric President is the second of Ben Cooper's projects, this time with Alex Kane. The sound is a mix with folk, pop, electronic, with a sound that would be very much like if you threw The Postal Service, The Decemberists, The Flaming Lips, and George Orwell in a large blender.

They've recorded two albums and one EP under the Electric President moniker, all available under the German imprint Morr Music, with a third to be released in early 2010 on Fake Four Inc. They've had songs on television and in various short films. They both came from DIY ideas of making music, and as such record all their music in a tool shed and a bedroom with a handful of recording gear. Apparently, this gives them cred.

They hope to one day be incredibly rich from their music so they can buy an airplane and set it on fire without ever using it. To burn that sucker simply because they can, and to stand by and drink expensive wine and laugh manically until it explodes. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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