Name: The Airwaves Are Alight
Duration: P00H03M41S
Description: New wave was over—definitely not "the craze" — by the time I was in high school. But The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths were still as popular as ever.

The Airwaves Are Alight

from Crumbles by The Urbane Decay

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New wave was over—definitely not "the craze" — by the time I was in high school. But The Cure, Depeche Mode and The Smiths were still as popular as ever.

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The airwaves are alight
Wireheads vs indie-rockers tonight
The phone lines are heating up
Take us back to high school days
When the new wave was all the craze

The phone lines are heating up
My eardrums are getting beaten up
The phone lines are heating up
The music isn't sweet enough

In high school I must admit
I had a crush on Robert Smith
Well, honestly, who didn't
When Johnny Marr's guitar was so glad
Why was Morrissey always so sad

Wasn't the music sweet enough
To keep his heart from getting beaten up
Wasn't the music sweet enough
Maybe it was all a bluff

Can anyone really be that melancholy?
Can anyone really be as morose as Morrissey?

The airwaves are alight
Wireheads vs indie-rockers tonight
The phone lines are heating up
The radio tower is ablaze
Vandalism's all the craze

The airwaves are heating up
My eardrums are getting beaten up
The music isn't sweet enough
My heart is getting beaten up

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from Crumbles, released January 1, 1998

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The Urbane Decay Toronto, Ontario

The Urbane Decay was an indie pop recording project mainly active between 2002-2010, mainly by Jakob Rehlinger, mainly maudlin and mopey.

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