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The Faint
The Faint


Background information
Origin Omaha, Nebraska
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Post-punk Revival
Dance-punk
New Wave
Years active 1995—present
Label(s) Saddle Creek Records
Associated acts Vverevvolf Grehv
Broken Spindles
Depressed Buttons
Website Website
Members
Todd Fink
Jacob Thiele
Dapose
Joel Petersen
Clark Baechle
Former members
Conor Oberst
Matt Bowen



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The Faint Lyrics

"Fulcrum And Lever" lyrics


I heard a bone snap
When I was only 'bout 9
The laws of gravitation
Were in advance a while(??)
But not long before they taught me a lesson
In tough skin jeans like a Japanese Hessian

I was 70 pounds
Learning to fly
I knew I couldn't do if I didn't try

We called it 'the field'
Where we used to hang out
A field of alfalfa in the back of a house

With a slice of an old oak tree
And a 12 foot plank
Put the board on top
We got a flying machine!

Oh my god! We can teeter on this!
Or make a lever that can shoot me
Into orbit and space!
I've seen the circus
I know how they do it

With bent knees
You got to jump
Like you would from a trampoline

Strange Phenomenon
Strange Phenomenon

We got up a ladder
And the heaviest kid (5)
He would climb up top (4)
And count down like a (3)rocket ship
To (2) fly me up
He'd get to (1) T-minus zero
(0)Before he jumped

And I was shot high in a vertical catapult
Straight up and down
I remember the view
From over top of the house

Gravity seems weak
Until you look down

I got in position
I hadn't echoed the form (???)
If the judges were present
They'd be holding up score cards
Of 9's and 10's
I must've loosed a couple points
For the landing I did

I heard a loud snap
But it didn't hurt
I looked the neighborhood
It looked like earth
But everybody's acting weird
Are they on meds?
Eating peanut butter sandwich
In a hospital bed

I started noticing
Strange Phenomenon
(I started noticing)
Strange Phenomenon
Is this planet the same one that I've been on
Everybody's bizzare and irrational
Even nurses on the quiet(?) seem a bit off

Strange Phenomenon
Everybody's deranged and I wonder what
Happened the day that I fell from the sky
If nobody changed then it must've been mine

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