[Silence]
[Arrangement: Driving piano rock with urgent drums, pumping bass, organ stabs, and gang-vocal call-and-response; tense verses that open into a chant-heavy chorus]
[Intro]
Pack it up
(Move it now)
Anyhow…
Don’t look back
(At what the future will lack)
[Verse 1]
The water’s rising
(Up the stairs)
Smoke is hanging
(In the air)
Power’s gone
(The road is closed)
The warning came
(But no one knows)
How long we’ve got
(Before the line)
Between “still safe”
(And “too late this time”)
The bags are by
(The broken door)
And nobody’s waiting
(Anymore)
[Chorus]
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
In case I wasn’t clear
(Outta here)
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
There’s nothing left
(To keep us here)
[Refrain]
No doubt about
(Gotta move out)
Let’s hear you shout:
(Gotta move out)
No doubt about
(Gotta move out)
Let’s hear you shout:
(Gotta move out)
[Verse 2]
The crops gave out
(The pipes ran dry)
The price of staying
(Climbed too high)
The school shut down
(The clinic too)
The map says stay
(But the facts say move)
A cracked foundation
(A washed-out lane)
A month of heat
(Then months of rain)
You don’t leave home
(For one bad day)
You leave when the system
(Gives way)
[Chorus]
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
In case I wasn’t clear
(Outta here)
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
There’s nothing left
(But pain and fear)
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Solo]
[Organ and Piano Solo]
[Breakdown]
No doubt
(Move out)
Somehow
(Move now)
No doubt
(Move out)
Somehow
(Move now)
[Final Chorus]
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
In case I wasn’t clear
(Outta here)
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
The ground beneath
(Has disappeared)
Didn’t you hear
(We gotta move outta here)
[Final Refrain]
No doubt about
(Gotta move out)
Let’s hear you shout:
(Gotta move out)
No doubt about
(Gotta move out)
Let’s hear you shout:
(Gotta move out)
Move out
(Gotta move out)
Move out
(Gotta move out)
[Outro]
Pack it up
(Move it out)
In a bout…
(About moving out)
Don’t look back
(Forever we’ll lack)
From the album “Displacement“