AIA - Chernobyl lyrics

[Prod. Alex Chellsen/AIA] Verse 1- Remember when we screamed every lyric from Led Zeppelin? We tripped on every step, running up the Stairway to Heaven We held our youth like it was a self-destructive weapon We were ticking time bombs in a nuclear Armageddon We searched for a silver lining in the LA smog aligning In the haze of youth it never fazed us the sun was not shining We worshiped each other, never realizing our idols were flawed We spoke each other's names like prayers lost on the ears of God Hook- We are Reminders we barely survived We are Ghosts of people who never died We are Relics of what we were deprived We are, we are, we are Verse 2- Nothing was golden, but we still dabbled in alchemy Driving over 80 on I-5 in your Camry We were church kids casually trying to embrace our depravity We brushed our tongues with blasphemy and spit in the baptistery We wanted to leave, steal moments like thieves, and be reprieved To be young is to have the strength to believe With blood on our shirts we wore our hearts on our sleeves Our experiences only caused us to be more naïve Now you're not who they think you are, and we're the only ones who know it: A closet fascist hanging with the left-wing poets You run from the hell of other people with No Exit in focus You harvest memories to find your mind fully plagued by locusts Your former self is imprisoned in photographs: A child in awe of the culture on Telegraph You howl conservative chants all the while contemplating jazz You dream of the beach shore, but you never see past Alcatraz