Foster The People - Paradise State Of Mind Album Lyrics

The world is spinning madly
Seeing kaleidoscopic lights
And it's like we've all been hypnotized
As we're drifting off to paradise

Well, I used to go by Johnny, but now you can call me Jackie O, uh-huh
Walking in stilettos, breaking down the walls like Jericho
Today, I woke up crying, so I went into a church to pray
They said, "Excuse me, but you'll have to leave or we're calling security"

The headlines got us thinking that we're all gonna die
Then convince us that we have to buy a ticket for the afterlife

Well, the world is spinning madly
Seeing kaleidoscopic lights
And it's like we've all been hypnotized
As we're drifting off to paradise
And the self-important faces
Are just laughing at the signs
And the Coliseum's empty
I guess I'll see you in the afterlife

Well, it's European summer and the skies are looking kinda mean
Well, I'm thinking of a holiday, what's the weather like in Kiev?
Uh, uh
And the sun is peeking out over all the tired faces
Well, my friends were going out last night
And I still haven't heard from them

The headlines got us thinking that we're all gonna die
Then convince us that we have to sell our ticket for the afterlife

I guess I'll see you in the afterlife (woo)
I guess I'll see you in the afterlife

The self-important faces
Are just laughing at the signs
And the Coliseum's empty
I guess I'll see
I guess I'll see you in the afterlife

But I was trapped inside a glass heart
Shattered by the lights that were bouncing off the walls inside
And I've been drifting in a daydream
Fantasies that keep me in my bed and awake at night

Floating and drifting and flying through the open sky

And I'm lost (without you)
I'm lost in space (lost in space)
Turning through the sky around a screaming ball of fire
And love (I bet you)
A warm embrace (a warm embrace)
The more we give ourselves, the more we have to give away

I was a flower and your angel
Hungry for the wisdom like the animals out in their heavens
I let the darkness in to teach me
I learned more than I wanted, when I tried, I couldn't look away

Floating and drifting and flying through the open sky

And I'm lost (without you)
I'm lost in space (lost in space)
Turning through the sky around a screaming ball of fire
And love (I bet you)
A warm embrace (a warm embrace)
The more we give ourselves, the more we have to give away

Just look for the signs of glowing afterlife
'Cause they're all around us
Just look for the signs of glowing afterlife
'Cause they're all around
I wanna follow you there
You know I'll follow you anywhere

'Cause I'm lost (without you)
I'm lost in space (lost in space)
Turning through the sky just looking for a sign
And love (I bet you)
A warm embrace (a warm embrace)
The more we give ourselves, the more we have to give away

'Cause we are in the search for glowing afterlife
'Cause we are in the search for glowing afterlife

Take me closer to the good times
You know, you know, you know we'll be alright

Take me closer to the good times

I'm hearing things, I'm hearing things
The wilderness echoes in my dreams
Conversations about funny things
But I muted everybody

'Cause I'm always moving forward
But a part of me is always waving back at my past life
Letting all my dreams take me downstream
And bring me that much closer to the good times

Fall in love with yourself again
Like we did when we were children
Like we did when we were children
Before social modifications

If my inner life is fresh as f*ck
Infinite dimensions
Just pull up on that astral line
Floating over all the city life below
Gets me closer to the good times

Always moving forward
But a part of me is always waving back at my past life
Letting all my dreams take me downstream
And bring me that much closer to the good times

Take me closer to the good times
Just take me closer to the good times

Let go (Let go)
Of all the feelings that are weighin' you down
Don't worry 'cause in time, you'll come around
The things that we hold on to just keep us in our head
So let go (Let go, let go, let go)

Yeah
Trippin' on my thoughts, float through the ceiling in my room
Well, things are changin', I hope the sun is breakin' through soon
My world is lookin' up
Higher than it's ever been, uh-uh

Every pain has its own pleasure
And I've been smilin' through it all, it's so cyclical, uh-uh-uh
Yeah, my world is lookin' up
I'm breathin' it in 'cause I know I just got to

Let go (Let go)
Of all the feelings that are weighin' you down
Don't worry 'cause in time, you'll come around
The things that wе hold on to just keep us in our head
So let go (Let go, lеt go, let go)

Well
I'm tryin' to move on from how I used to be
And it's a constant thing, a-just like gravity
It keeps pullin' me down and it's humbling
To look at yourself, uh-uh

Every pain has its own pleasure
And I've been walkin' through it all, it's so cyclical, uh-uh-uh
Yeah, my world is lookin' up
Higher than it's ever been, 'cause I just let it in

Let go (Let go)
Of all the feelings that are weighin' you down
Don't worry 'cause in time, you'll come around
The things that we hold on to just keep us in our head
So let go (Let go, let go, let go)

Let go, let go, let go, let go
Let go, let go, let go, let go
Let go, let go, let go, let go

There comes a time where there is no time
There is a life that comes after life
To fully prove is to know how to live for
There is a world that we cannot pursue
To be broken is to be set free
To find hope in the chaos of the universe

I want to hack your code and be your anti-hero
Turn you on and let my one activate your zero
I want to taste all the data that you won't release
Ooh, with our X's and Y's we'll make a masterpiece

And feed me all you got
Strictly digital
Yeah, give me all your love
Let's be irrational

I'll be your feel-good machine

Let me kiss your screen and free the dopamine
I want to make you scream like it's all make-believe
I want to taste all your data and intoxicate
Ooh, until you're glitching, I'll make your body pixelate

Yeah, so feed me all you got
Strictly digital
Yeah, give me all your love
Let's be irrational

Yeah, feed me all you got
It's natural
Uh-huh, give me all your love
We're compatible

I'll be your feel-good machine

Yeah

Feed me all you got
I'm an animal
Feed me
Feed me
Divinely international

I don't wanna go home 'til the light is comin' out
My thoughts are slowly driftin' back onto the grounds
And when I'm all alone and my head is spinnin' out
I'm just waitin' for your voice to pull me back into the clouds
Well, paradise lives in a state of mind
And the lines keep gettin' blurry 'cause we're all afraid of life
But my heart's alive, and it's bleedin' out alone
I'm just sittin' in my room, I can't stop starin' at my phone

But I'm reachin' out (I'm reachin' out)
Yeah, I'm reachin' out (I'm reachin' out)
Oh, can you hear me now? (Oh-oh)
Whoa-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh

Stop tryin' to work out why something feels good and let it all in
Just need to stop tryin' to work out why something feels good to let it begin

It's a common thing, when the fear is speakin' out
And to get caught in the pressure of the things that drag me down
But I want the truth, I keep searchin' for the proof
And distracted by the existential questions of my future

And I'm reachin' out (I'm reachin' out)
Yeah, I'm reachin' out (I'm reachin' out)
Oh, can you hear me now?
Whoa-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh

Just need to stop tryin' to work out why something feels good and let it all in
Yeah, just need to stop tryin' to work out why something feels good to let it begin

Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Yeah, oh
Whoa-oh-oh
Oh

Well, lift me up, lift me higher up again
To leave all the madness of my thoughts
When all the words come rushin' in, I need to be lifted up
Lift me higher up again
I want to walk in all my love
'Cause all my love for you is real, I want you to be lifted up
Lifted up, lifted up
Oh-oh
Yeah, lifted up, yeah, higher
Lifted higher, yeah, higher
Lifted higher, higher
Higher, higher

I was a proper broken, broken bird
Just twitching with my wings in the glass
I hurt my beak
From sniffing too many things
And now the air's in my, I got some air in my wings
Got some air in my, got some air in my wings
Caught some air in my, got some air, yeah, I caught some air

Winter pushes my thoughts south when I start to fly

But the wind has other plans
And then I'm surviving in my head, ooh
Trying to survive it in my own head, ooh
And then I'm surviving in my bed, ooh
Trying to survive it in my own head, ooh

The people walking down the street
Always try some clever things to socialize
Angling to get a little closer to their prize
But I put up walls and fight for space
To get some shelter from the storm
That's when the shadow forms
Isolating in my room and dreaming about the views

Winter pushes my thoughts south when I start to fly

But the wind has other plans
And then I'm surviving in my head, ooh
Trying to survive it in my own head, ooh
And then I'm surviving in my bed, ooh
Trying to survive it in my own head, ooh

The white morning static
Ebbs and flows on my waking breath
The child inside peers through my tired eyes
To change, to call out in prayer
And ask for help from up there
Is anybody out there?
I can hear it and I know
When the walls are grey and faded away
When the walls turn grey and fading away
The color in the walls just faded away

All of my life, all of my life, all of my life
I've lived in some kind of dream
And when I open my eyes, open my eyes, open my eyes
I see interdimensional beings

And it's alright, it's alright
The tension with the good times
It's alright
Yeah, and when it's midnight, we're alright
The fever breaks with sunlight
And washes all our shadows away, hey, hey, hey

Close your eyes
Like nobody sees us, nobody sees us
Oh, my love, we'll be together

Through hard times
It's okay to rely on something you're needing to believe in
To get through to the other side
'Cause in the good times we forget
We gotta hold on to the hope that we first believed in
So we never get swept away, ay, ay, ay

I'm taking a ride to the holy Shangri-La
It's hard to know what is real
And all of my life, all of my life, all of my life
I've tried my best not to feel

Ooh, the only way to get out is if we go through it all
Yeah, we go through it all, uh-huh
Ooh, so take my hand into the light
I know it's easier to close your eyes, hey, hey, hey

The time has come
To say a prayer
An astral song
A prophet's glare
The white horse breathes
But don't despair
When the death knell rings
The time is near

So come in close to my heart
Like there's nobody else
We'll step in time and look into eternity

Through hard times
It's okay to rely on something you're needing to believe in
To get through to the other side
'Cause in the good times we forget
We gotta hold on to the hope that we first believed in
So we never get swept away, ay, ay, ay

Sometimes I wanna be sad
And let the loneliness come and be my friend
Sometimes I wanna be bad
The feelings carry me down
And I'm lost in my head, yeah

Tonight the feeling came back
Growling like a grizzly bear roar
Got me clawing up a tree for my life
Saying, "Wait a minute, just wait a minute"
Doing everything I can
Oh-ah, but here I am

Just counting days alone at night
Yeah, I know it well
It's been a couple of times
Saying prayers, hoping someone hears
And you make it through
Just one more day

Sometimes I wanna be sad
And let the loneliness come and be my friend
Sometimes I wanna be bad
The feelings carry me down
'Til I'm lost in my head

I'd give a piece of my mind
For a peace in my mind
Just a piece of my life
And I don't care
If I'll give you everything that I got
It's for love, for love, for love, for love, for love, for love
Just to carry it on
Yeah, carrying on, yeah, on

Moment to moment
Living in the spaces
Between our thoughts
Letting them fade away

Yeah
Sometimes I wanna be bad
Uh-uh
Sometimes I wanna be bad
Sometimes I wanna be bad
Sometimes I wanna be bad

Time is moving faster when I'm counting down the
Days are getting longer when the life I live is
Free from all the water I was taking on from
Chasing low vibrations and f*cking up everything

Well, I'm trying my best just to breathe in all the changes
Leaving the future for another day
There's a voice that I know even when I can't hear it
I can feel it, feel it say
"It will all be okay in"

Time is moving faster when I'm counting down the
Days are getting longer when the life I live is
Free from all the water I was taking on from
Chasing low vibrations and f*cking up everything

But all those nights that my lights went out again
Pouring my heart into a stranger's bed
Too afraid to just look at myself and surrender
Saying, "You're overreacting"

But I was wrong

It just takes time

'Cause I wanna be free
From all the water I was taking on from
Chasing low vibrations and f*cking up everything

In this world I love
We're reborn in the future
It just takes time
As below, so it's above
In this world I love
It just takes time
In this world I love
There's nobody to tell you
It just takes time
In this world I love
In this world that I love

Vulnerable love
Vulnerable strength
I've been dreaming
That a diamond would be born

The more I love you
The more light I let in
I've been dreaming
That the pressure would be pure
And a diamond would be born

I look at myself through a broken lens
Try my best to keep from unraveling
And the child inside is looking out
And holding on to the dream
That your love would cause a diamond to be born

Oh, all the things I've tried
The things I've run from
Search for a better life
It was me, I know
Just want to be
Just want to be free
In the search for a better way