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Sanity Vanity

Track 9 on Digital People (2015)

Vox (chorus): All three of Nick Whitecross, Jon Hall and George Stewart

Vox (select parts): Nick Whitecross and George Stewart


Change my life
Play the game
Change my life
Break the chain
Change my life
If it's not too late
Change my life
Why (Why) hesitate?

My lips are moving but I can't hear a word
I'd like to tell you about some stories I've heard
There's so much noise in here I cannot break free
There goes my sanity

Over there I think there's someone I know
She's waving at me and her fingers are blow
Is this what happens when the dead say hello?
There goes my sanity

There goes sanity
There goes vanity
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)
There goes sanity (Can you help me?)
There goes vanity (Can I help you, can you help me?)
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)
(Can you help me out?)

Change my life
Shut my mouth
Change my life
Shut my mouth

The flame is burning and it's easy to see
It's burning brightly coming in from the sea
I just need a look I know it's looking at me
There goes my sanity

There goes sanity (Can you help me?)
There goes vanity (Can I help you, can you help me?)
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)
There goes sanity
There goes vanity
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)
(Can you help me out?)

Why hesitate? There goes sanity
There goes vanity
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)
There goes sanity (Can you help me?)
There goes vanity (Can I help you, can you help me?)
My mad family (Why hesitate, can you help me?)



Note: A few words are sung by Jon on his own but it's so minimal it's not worth marking.

Modern day Peter Barnett waving his hand with the word Placeholder above his head