The Ambitions Are Lyrics - Singles - The Golden Palominos

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

You don't trade money here 

You trade information 

And skin 

Right now there are thousands of forgotten people 

Trying to remember you 

Children are killed because they write an enemy's name backwards on the wall 

Young girls tie ribbons around their slender throats trying to keep their heads on 

Chocolate boy walks to ice cream truck for vanilla cone is shot dead three times 

This city kills its young 

The angels all have guns now 

The angels aren't anyone you'd want to pray to 

No-one here has goals like: 

Get a job, get married, have kids 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

No desire to get rich 

Become famous 

Move out 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe 

Keep breathing 

Every woman who walks by is every woman you'll never have 

Beautiful, quick and poisonous as mercury 

The city is full of women slim and busy 

Hoping there is room in some man's life 

For them 

Women sort through the dead bodies like bags of laundry with exhausted mama eye 

Sigh because they are too dry for tears 

People huddle in kitchens, clasp their hands, celebrating 

Something has tried to kill them and failed 

Nightclub men twitch too subdued to recognize apocalypse 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

You've driven these streets a thousand times and all they offer is their exhaustion 

Your nightmares have your name now 

You exit the glitter storm, go home alone and embrace the violence instead 

The city has claimed all your blood and memory this is cool and unusual punishment 

You go for years without touching another 

Never think of the 'why?' 

You are so casual about brutality 

Doctor says: take this, it'll settle you down 

Doctor says: take this, it'll settle your system 

Doctor says: take this, it'll we'll settle the bill 

Doctor says: take this, it'll settle the score 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

There's a voice on the loudspeaker and she speaks your language 

Doesn't need to stay 

It can disappear when the wife walks in 

Here comes the interrogation room scene 

Today is the day you're gonna get caught 

You're terrified of what you crave 

Don't get delighted 

They want you scared 

The sweet things don't stick around but the bullshit lasts forever 

Please press pound 

You're dual-channeling for new friends or just new things to envy 

Who's running the machine you run on? 

Wish you had someone to speak code with 

Wish you had someone to steal things for 

Wish you had someone to fuck you so you could finally go to sleep 

You just want to die 

A little bit 

Ink and paint is making you faint in your pale pale shirt stolen from uptown stores 

Watch the girls in the twin sweater sets smoke, cough, throw up 

Teeth-scraped knuckles are a tell-tale sign 

Get in the car 

Get in the car 

Get in the car and what you hear is a sound of impact 

Turn around slowly and check your body for bruises 

There is no-one here to take care of you 

Open-mouthed, waiting for a candy kiss and all you get is rain communion 

Between lap dances and laptops you see girls who fuck like they're boneless 

You're thirty eight and your job is telling fourteen year old boys what to think is cool 

Are you laughing? 

They are 

And this one is a fire 

And that one is a flame 

And this one is a spark 

And that one is a match you put out in your mouth when no-one was looking 

And in your dreams your grandparents live forever 

And you throw your love into the air like glitter swallowing stars, spitting up stardust 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

Mothers wring their hands and say: I'm so at a loss 

Best friend says: I've come not to praise you, but to destroy with my bare fucking hands 

Girl on the television says: you all work for me now 

Boss says: come here, let me hit you just once 

Man on the street says: I can make any woman kill herself in a year 

So you drive your dead body home at night 

And when you sleep the angels kisses are mercury 

Mercury 

Breaking love into lust 

Grinding pearls into dust 

Breaking love into lust 

Grinding pearls into dust 

Breaking love into lust 

Grinding pearls into dust 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe keep breathing 

The ambitions are 

Wake up breathe 

Keep breathing