We Will Become Silhouettes (2005) by The Postal Service. A song with a pretty melody and beautifully sung but alarming lyrics - - of impending doom! Nuclear holocaust and being to close to the explosion; the intensity of the flash burning your body's image into whatever is around you. The music sounds happy, but it's not!
Released in February by Sub Pop Records on an album with the same name, We Will Become Silhouettes was the band's most successful recording, reaching number eighty-four on the Billboard charts. The song was used in the trailer for the movie Funny People and was also used in Love Happens, both released in 2009.
Released in February by Sub Pop Records on an album with the same name, We Will Become Silhouettes was the band's most successful recording, reaching number eighty-four on the Billboard charts. The song was used in the trailer for the movie Funny People and was also used in Love Happens, both released in 2009.
I've got a cupboard with cans of food,
filtered water, and pictures of you
and i'm not coming out until this is all over
filtered water, and pictures of you
and i'm not coming out until this is all over
And i'm looking through the glass
where the light bends at the cracks
and i'm screaming at the top of my lungs
pretending the echoes belong to someone
pretending the echoes belong to someone
Someone i used to know
And we become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba, ba, ba, ba . . . ba, ba, ba, ba
I wanted to walk through the empty streets
and feel something constant under my feet,
but all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors
Because the air outside will make
our cells divide at an alarming rate
until our shells simply cannot hold all our insides in
our cells divide at an alarming rate
until our shells simply cannot hold all our insides in
and that's when we'll explode
(and it won't be a pretty sight)
We will become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba, ba, ba, ba
We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba, ba, ba, ba
We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
Ba, ba, ba, ba
We will become, we'll become, we'll become
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
(Faintly)
silhouettes when our bodies finally go
(Faintly)
Ba, ba, ba, ba
We will become, we will become . . .
We will become, we will become . . .
