Greedy Fly

Bush

Do you feel the way you hate
Do you hate the way you feel
Always closest to the flame
Ever closer to the blade
I am poison crazy lush
Built these hands to lift me up
We are servants of our formulaic ways
I'm screaming daisies
From fourteen miles away
I've got my own time
Got it all today

Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind

Limbo this and limbo that
You were this and you were that
Ever know that what you fear is what you find
This Indian summer
I signed my life away
There's a greedy fly in here
And I fly away

Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind

Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind

Make up your mind
I need some help
To find this mind mind mind mind


Lyrics submitted by Moondragon, edited by Donaldson

Greedy Fly Lyrics as written by Gavin Rossdale

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    I think this song is about the way we need to embrace life, because any other way isn't worth living.

    It's about giving in to different traps as a greedy simple organism in different ways while trying to find something that we need help to find.

    "We are servants to our formulaic ways"

    We choose to put ourselves in situations that control us, instead of deciding to be in control. We are in limbo, unsure of ourselves and our choices. We either choose to balance ourselves, or we choose to be balanced by forces of nature.

    "Ever know that what you fear is what you find"

    We eventually create what we envision as ourselves and for ourselves.

    AmberBon August 05, 2009   Link

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