The Basement Tapes

Verse 1

White

Washed out

Lining up the paper routes

They hide the basement tapes

Scrambling the signal

Fraying

Failing

Watching Joe forget the play

While the ink dries on the gag order

Dull

Scissors

Cutting through the culture

Chorus

Blue no matter who

Even if the sky turns black

Blue no matter who

Never looking back

They'd burn it all down

Burn it to the ground

Just to keep the crown away from him

Yeah they'd burn it all down

Verse 2

Stitches

Tiny lives

Scalpels and the social lies

Frozen funds

Digital cages

Wiping out the history pages

Cold

Steel

Pumping what they call a cure

While the judges flip the script

Mean

Red

Man in the crosshairs now

Bullet missed the target

They call him names from forty-five

Just for staying alive

Chorus

Blue no matter who

Even if the sky turns black

Blue no matter who

Never looking back

They'd burn it all down

Burn it to the ground

Just to keep the crown away from him

Yeah they'd burn it all down

Bridge

They want the needles

They want the silence

They want the kids changed

They want the needles

They want the silence

They want the kids changed

Mutilation station

Population patience

He's the only one standing

He's the only one left

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Blue no matter who

Even if the sky turns black

Blue no matter who

Never looking back

They'd burn it all down

Burn it to the ground

Just to keep the crown away from him

Yeah they'd burn it all down

Outro

Bank account zero

Where is the hero

Basement Joe

Losing the glow

Woke

Broke

Joke

They’d rather see the world end

Than see him win again

Yeah they would

They would

(Blue no matter who)

(Blue no matter who)