Lifetime Achievement Award is the first track in Lemon Demon's seventh album, Spirit Phone.
Lyrics[]
Die-hard fans adored your hands
They loved your throat and quote unquote "you" (oohhh ohh)
Hey, remember Michael Jackson? Michael Jackson really happened
Delta Echo Alpha Delta, walking on the moon forever
You are dead and buried, you are dead (Oh no)
That's being revised!
Even as we speak we're synthesizing blood and organs
Synthesizing heart and soul
Even Katy Perry knows you're dead (Oh no)
Won't she be surprised!
When we get your heart to start tomorrow
When you see the chart tomorrow you'll be number one
Bro, you look amazing
Really put together
It's like you haven't aged a day, oh
It's like we know what we're doing or something
You've been gone for way too long, like half a year
An entire career for some
Good luck getting into Heaven, if you live past 27
Listen to the radiation, put you back in circulation
You are dead and buried, you are dead (Oh no)
Oh, but you never died!
Even as we speak we're synthesizing blood and organs
Synthesizing heart and soul
Ain't no cemetery you can't shed (Oh no)
Ain't nowhere you can hide!
Don't be frightened of us
Soon enough you're gonna love us, just remember
This is your last ride ever, forever
Fill up your lungs, feel better
Look - it's you, good as new
New hands, new throat, new living tissue
You earned this new purpose
Lifetime achievement award
Don't be nervous baby
We put a billion eyes back on you
From the grave to the stage
You're unnatural, babe!
You are dead and buried, you are dead (Oh no)
That's being revised!
Even as we speak we're synthesizing blood and organs
Synthesizing heart and soul
Even Katy Perry knows you're dead (Oh no)
Won't she be surprised!
When we get your heart to start tomorrow
When you see the chart tomorrow you'll be number one
(Oh no, oh no)
Due to my strong personal convictions, (Due to my strong personal convictions,)
I wish to stress, (I wish to stress,)
That this record, (That this record,)
In no way endorses, (In no way endorses,)
A belief in the occult (A belief in the occult)
Due to my strong personal convictions, (Due to my strong personal convictions,)
I wish to stress, (I wish to stress,)
That this record, (That this record,)
In no way endorses, (In no way endorses,)
A belief in the occult (A belief in the occult)
Due to my strong personal convictions, (Due to my strong personal convictions,)
I wish to stress, (I wish to stress,)
That this record, (That this record,)
In no way endorses, (In no way endorses,)
A belief (A belief)
In the occult
Trivia[]
- Early versions of this song were known as "Experiments in Revival", a reference to a 1940's Soviet medical film called Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. [1]
- The chant at the end is a paraphrased version the disclaimer at the beginning of the video for Michael Jackson's Thriller. [2]
- The real transcription of the line "You're (a/un)natural, babe" is contended. In the Bandcamp and physical linear notes it's put down as, "You're a natural," while Neil describes it to be "You're unnatural" in the commentary (a pun on "You're a natural.")
- In the demo for Lifetime Achievement Award, the lines "Synthesizing heart and soul", "When you see the chart tomorrow you'll be number one", "put your back in circulation", and "Look - its you, good as new" used to be "Everything will be ok", "When you see the chart tomorrow you'll be at the top", "Televised reformation", and "Look - its you, we missed you". This in addition to the final chorus being completely missing. [3]