Calexico All Systems Red Lyrics

All Systems Red Lyrics

Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath

That forecasts storms on the Gallup poll

Woke up from the nightmare news

And hoping to read a sign in the morning air



Nothing changes here and nothing improves

All say my friends who just want out

And leave these troubles behind

Scatter like paper in the eye of the storm

Documented with a silence note

It's only heard from far, far away



More cards in play, following suit

Everywhere you look, you only see red

Wonder when to call off the race

Watching a horse running down its last legs



Just when you think it couldn't get much worse

Watch the numbers rise on the death toll

And the chimes of freedom flash and fade

Only heard from far, far away



I hear you can't trust in your own

Now the grey is broken in the early morn

And the words forming barely have a voice

It's just your heart that's breaking without choice



Everything you heard is distorted in your head

Bouncing off the walls, unraveling the thread

Staying up with the blue screen glow

Forgetting everything you ever dreamed years ago



When the dread is flowing down my veins

I want to tear it all down and build it up again

Hear your heart that's breaking without choice

I want to hear those chimes ring again

Ring again