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Written by: Greg Graffin
Released in: 2019
BPM: 140
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It's never really clear when the end is near
'Til you take a hard look in the rearview mirror
And I'm pretty sure we're just running on fumes
No one really cares about the routes

Beaches break down and the waves retreat
Are we stuck in some perpetual repeat?
Maybe we're like massive cliffs of sand
Waiting for the plates to smash again

Downfall, gravity calls
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, you can't forestall
It's proof there ain't no invisible hand

No one 'round here can contain their fears
So contented with false hope to soothe their tears
Faith is King while truth is on the lam
Disenfranchised scientists be damned!

Downfall, gravity calls
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, it's a natural law
And the judge don't have no use for the witness stand

Downfall, it's a natural law
Entropy makes fools of us all
Downfall, kill the guy with the ball
And make sure he can't get up to take a stand

Downfall

Versions
Version Length Release Catalog ID Country Format Year
Album version
2:36 Age of Unreason United States 12" 2022
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2022
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason United States 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason 87636-1 United States 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason WPCR 18204 Japan CD 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason Europe 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason 87636-1 United States 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason United States 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason 87636-1 United States 12" 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason United States CD 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason 7636-2 Europe CD 2019
2:36 Age of Unreason Epitaph Promo 31 Europe CD 2019
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08/01/2020 at 20:12
Nobody is writing anything. OK, OK so i'm gonna start. It's a really Super Song !
Aaaand it have two meanings.
1) Flat - superficial one : it's a song about plane crash.
2) Real meaning : it's a song about the end of the world. About that we humans
are destroying the Earth and nobody cares.
it's a song for Greta ;) .
About 3 months ago polish Professor in tv said like Greg in the song :
We are at the beginning of the plane crash and if the destroying of the Earth will
continue then in 2040 it's not gonna be any retreat and it will be the Domino Effect
and "We're only gonna die from our own arrogance".
"And I'm pretty sure we're just running on fumes No one really cares about the routes"
"Maybe we're like massive cliffs of sand Waiting for the plates to smash again"

Yes boys and girls - people in plane who's gonna crash
is ONLY an Allegory ... Parable ... oh you know... of the catastrophic ecological situation
caused by US humans, and we're just running out of time to fix it cuz we're one leg
in the coffin and the second one is on the banana peel ...



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