This has a great energy, kind of punk. Great chorus CW and some interesting arrangement going on. This is my fave of yours. Nice piano lines too.

Mix: Jack Holston

LYRIC

It wasn’t so long ago
That you could know where you’d go
There’d be no phone chatter and chimings
Now there’s not a place for silence
No escape from sonic violence 
Nice things
We are why we can’t have nice things
Me oh my yes let’s be honest, children
The way things are, that is on us children
We are why 

I don’t claim we’re deserving
We’re not good at preserving 
Gifts we find with each sun’s rising
We’ve poisoned rivers, blackened skyways
Tore through mountains to lay down highways
Oh nice things
We are why we can’t have nice things
Me oh my yes let’s be honest, children
The way things are, that is on us children
We are why 

Because we’re dumb
Because we’re cruel
Because we look in the mirror and don’t see a fool
We love ourselves 
And no one else 
No one
No one
But us

What's more, we lie 
We also steal 
And we can never agree on what is real
We love ourselves
Hate everyone else…

So if I ask in advance 
If there is even a chance
Tomorrow will bring us glad tidings 
And if not, we’ll party harder
Pour the wine and raid the larder
Burn through our savings and party harder
Party harder 
Nice things
We are why we can’t have nice things
Me oh my yes let’s be honest, children
The way things are, it’s all on us children
We are why
We’re not that good at fault deducing
But highly skilled at reproducing

We are why we can’t have nice things!

Nice Things

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heart house and the new kindness.

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