Parallel Lives
[Verse 1: AKTRISA & etsi◑nancy]
Don’t get me wrong
Should I sing with my mask on?
I don’t wanna lose my sense of smell
Sense of taste, sense of self
Haven’t been feeling like myself at all
For like a year now, you know?
(I do)

[AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
Goddamn these parallel lives
We live
It’s like a big scar right
In the middle of our life lines
This one time
Little you and I
Were playing with knives too
Goddamn soon

[etsi◑nancy with AKTRISA]
Two little hopeless psychics
Against a material world
Bunch of material girls
Who’d rather stay at home
As we fight for us all
[AKTRISA]
Is that who you’re here for?
(I doubt it)

[Instrumental]

One, two, three, four

[Chorus: AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
You’ll see me in the morning if we wake up
In our 2020 make up
Of bruise and blood
Dancing to the song we knew so well
But we only now know what it is about

A change in the weather, a drop in the ocean
And here we have a global warming
Keep saying your actions don’t matter
Fact of the matter
If 2020 ain’t gonna teach you nothing
Nothing is gonna teach you ever

[AKTRISA & etsi◑nancy]
Lost my old home
I’m never getting it back
Lost my goddamn mind
I’ll drink to that
On a loop of nostalgia and deja vu
[AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
You can keep your silence
Until your silence poisons you

[Bridge: AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
There will always be
Something to lose
So we make it something
To fight for
There will always be
Something to lose
So we make it something
To die for

[Instrumental]

[Verse 2: AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
God help us understand
Case fatality rate vs. infection fatality rate
First we prayed to be in good health
Now we pray we’re alive by the end of the day
They have the nerve say police is on their way
To lose their fucking minds, eh?
Or what?

[AKTRISA]
Bad for the people
Good for the media
[etsi◑nancy with AKTRISA]
We don’t know if we’ll get home safe
But we take it to the streets anyway
And everyday
Around the fucking world
Can’t

[etsi◑nancy & AKTRISA]
Listen to no more love songs
Put something else on
Where all the good cops gone?
Where all the good news gone?
Where all the [fill in fucking the blank] gone?

[AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
The world is gone as we know it
Happy 2021

[Instrumental]

[Chorus 2: AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
Goddamn these parallel lives
We live
It’s like a big scar right
In the middle of our life lines
This one time
Little you and I
Were playing with knives too
Goddamn soon

A change in the weather, a drop in the ocean
And here we have a global warming
Keep saying your actions don’t matter
Fact of the matter
If 2020 ain’t gonna teach you nothing
Nothing is gonna teach you ever

[AKTRISA & etsi◑nancy]
Lost my old home
I’m never getting it back
Lost my goddamn mind
I’ll drink to that
On a loop of nostalgia and deja vu

[AKTRISA with etsi◑nancy]
You can keep your silence
Until your silence poisons
You’ll see me in the morning if we wake up
In our 2020 make up
Of bruise and blood
Two little hopeless psychics
Against a material world
Who grew old so young