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The Answer Lyrics by Joe Iconis

Two-Player Game

2018

[Verse 1]
When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
Minutes? Hours? What time is it anyway?
How do you tell your family that you wanna quit school and just play with your band?
When a fire starts burning, how much time do you have before it burns itself out?

[Chorus]
And why do I feel like I'm choking lately? What am I doing here?
Why do I feel like I'm choking lately? What am I looking for?
Maybe school, or maybe love, or maybe none of the above is the answer
Maybe for once I'll really try, or fuck it all and just get high 'cause that's an answer

[Verse 2]
Feels like an answer
And who do I wanna be?
Question 23
What's the furthest distance a ship can be from shore before it loses its signal?
What's the furthest distance a ship can be from shore before it loses its signal?

[Chorus]
And why do I feel like I'm choking lately? What am I doing here?
Why do I feel like I'm choking lately? What am I looking for?
Maybe school, or maybe love, or maybe none of the above is the answer
Maybe for once I'll really try, or fuck it all and just get high 'cause that's an answer

[Verse 2]
Maybe I'll practice my guitar, or read a book, or steal a car and steal the answer
I'll get a job and get paid or get a girlfriend and get laid and get the answer
I'll join the army, go to war, give up my smoke to smoke some more
I need an answer
Move to the village, shave my head, wind up happy, wind up dead
Wind up in debt, wind up in love, or maybe none of the above is the answer

[Verse 3]
Maybe it's ok that I don't have a plan and I don't have a clue
I'm 19 and that doesn't mean that I should know exactly what I want to do, right?
I'm 19 and that doesn't mean that I should know what I want to do
I've got time to make mistakes, make up my mind
I've got time enough to find out all the answers
But I am scared and I'm afraid that a decision won't get made and I'll be like this forever
I need help, need extra help to find the answers, what's the answer?
I don't know

[Outro]
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't—I don't know
When a fire starts in the hull, how much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
Pencils down, papers turned over
Time's up
Credits

About “The Answer” by Joe Iconis

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"The Answer" appears on "Two-Player Game" in 2018.

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