Citizen Fish - Words On Overtime lyrics

Sometimes Something good Needs understating to be understood Needs towing back from the cliché status That empties meaning from the phrases Used so often - once they held The singularity of the bell Used so often - once they held The singularity of the bell When words on overtime ring false cheer Cos everyone's saying them, it numbs the ears Picking up catchlines The wrong word at the wrong time Lost your future friends The wrong word at the right time Started up a trend The right word at the right time Is only in your head Is only in your head Sometimes Something bad Needs overstating in a sense gone mad When pain fear and grief Become too easy to believe Then the feeling isn't coming through When we daily consume oversimplified gloom Reported by strangers We fear anything we're not set to receive And feel alienated So when someone's pain Gets in our faces We need to hear Different phrases That we can believe That we can believe That we can believe What kind of worlds have we created Where basic feelings need re-creating To avoid the perceptions of fiction and cliché Being received? How long before via screen mentality Will we all forget how to tell the reality Apart from the act? There's the duality Careful how you feed