Form Over Function (demo)
Lyrics
Rich kids in faux punk ripped jeans
Hair cut from fashion magazines
Louder they talk the less they have to say
New neo new neo new wave
Post-ironic fashion slaves
Who knows or cares what any of it really means
Kid lays back on her bed
Staring at the ceiling, hands behind her head
Miley Cyrus poster papered over with Sid Vicious
Distorted power chords make her restless
Anthemic choruses leave her breathless
But at the core of her euphoria something doesn't feel right
Cause style over substance is what we need!
So make sure it's clean!
With no ambiguity!
Cause form over function sounds cool to me!
Just take out what it means!
And sell it back to me!
Kid walks the halls of her high school
She talks to her friends, they dress real cool
She doesn't really but she's been thinking lately of a change
Neon and checkerboard hightops, maybe
Dye her hair black like her friend Hailey's
Solve it all with a trip to the mall on Saturday
But headphones on later thinking at home
No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones
How did a revolution end up a mainstream fashion?
She ponders what's a kid to do?
Wear a f*** ing business suit to school?
Cause anything else cool's bound to get marketed too (as all the kids sing,)
Style over substance is what we need!
So make sure it's clean!
with no ambiguity!
Cause form over function sounds cool to me!
(They take something that kids have done)
Just take out what it means!
(Market it to make them rich)
and sell it back to me... Yeah!
(Hollow out all our heritage
And pretty soon the kids have none)
A marketing image is what I wanna be!
Run it through committee!
No need for anything messy baby, messy baby!
So come on kids this'll make us happy!
Easily unique!
Before we take our place in the machine, yeah yeah!
Yeah yeah!
Yeah yeah!
