Back Into It - Islands

Those songs we used to sing

We haven’t sung them in so long

I’ll sing one with you now

But first tell me how much I get for biting my tongue

I kept my mouth shut but still I got stung, so

All gone

How do you do it?

You put your back into it

For so long

Making it up just to make it now

Yeah, I got it down

Propped it up, but right away it fell

It ain’t too hard to tell, that

It’s all gone

How do you do it?

You put your back into it

For so long

You’re all wrong

And that’s when I knew it

You put your back into it

And it was all gone

You, sense destroyer

A spiritualist

Me, a sense enjoyer

Materialist

But you’re never going to tell me what I can say

You’re never going to take my wings away, now

It’s all gone

How do you do it?

You put your back into it

For so long

I played along with the lunacy (I played along)

I played along like it was new to me

Just to get along!

But now it’s all gone

How do you do it?

You put your back into it

For so long

You’re all wrong

And that’s when I knew it

You put your back into it

And it was all gone

Those songs we used to sing

We haven’t sung them in so long

I’ll sing one for you now

(La la la la, la la la la)

(La la la la la)