[ti:Tropicalia] [ar:Brian Newman] [al:Showboat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tropicalia - Brian Newman [00:05.77]Lyrics by:Beck Hansen [00:11.55]Composed by:Beck Hansen [00:17.33]Produced by:Dae Bennett [00:23.11]Oh when they beat upon a broken guitar [00:25.88]And all the streets they reek of tropical charms [00:28.72]The embassies lie in hideous shards [00:31.78]Where tourists snore and decay [00:34.41]When they dance in a reptile blaze [00:37.36]You wear a mask an equatorial haze [00:40.15]Into the past a colonial maze [00:43.25]Where there's no more confetti to throw [00:47.08]You wouldn't know what to say to yourself [00:50.12]Love is a poverty you couldn't sell [00:53.00]Misery waits in vague hotels [00:56.36]To be evicted [01:03.11]You're out of luck you're singing funeral songs [01:05.90]To the studs they're anabolic and bronze [01:08.63]They seem to strut in their millennial fogs [01:11.43]'Til they fall down and deflate [01:15.61]You wouldn't know what to say to yourself [01:18.26]Love is a poverty you couldn't sell [01:21.14]Misery waits in vague hotels [01:24.50]To be evicted [02:34.33]Oh and now you've had your fun [02:37.36]Under an air conditioned sun [02:40.04]It's burned into your eyes [02:43.07]Leaves you plain and left behind [02:46.00]I'll see them rise and fall [02:48.65]Into the jaws of a pestilent love [02:51.39]You wouldn't know what to say to yourself [02:53.95]Love is a poverty you couldn't sell [02:57.01]Misery waits in vague hotels [03:00.70]To be a victim