I awake to shades of gray Stumbling silhouette just broke the ashtray Try to remember why you're in my room The cocaine never lets you sleep It only
Introducing the new code of honor It's black and white Question muted by the gun in your mouth Principles standardized You disarm yourself- when you
hiding in shadows, reaching out desperately there's no culture no belief conditioned egos days of pestilence and greed incubating our disease mother,
The plan's begun to snuff you out No need for subtleties It's too late for that now A facelift ripped through flesh, left bleeding The plastic beauty
It's been one thousand days since I last saw you breathe Incarcerated by the routines etched into the concrete We all fell down now we just hop around
Why the sour face? Has the pace of the American life hit you right on the chin? Well we've got sunshine trapped in bottles, Now look at our Cheshire
You've got the look The silky silicon skin The airbrushed eyes, the front page disguise Under the knife Peeled back a revelation The store bought lies
We lie in bed for days Empty bottles consuming empty space I'm suffocating If I go to you by train it's forty-five blocks of seeing the same expressionless
Goodnight tomorrow is moving day Everything's in boxes waiting for This extended holiday Displaced, swallowed by the sprawl Sometimes the grandest openings
See the buildings rising up See the buildings crumble down Hear a million voices scream for silence Automated tasks, Repetition beat into the ground
Years spent on backs, sliding to avoid the tripwires Stumbled into traps, reluctant yes, all teeth ground down Jokes that we hated but laughed at And
There was a song we used to sing That we'll never sing again Old tired bones depend- On their easy answers and tired trends Cheers to you my dead air
I broke my back, son, sold my timea?? Fingers shredded even more than your spirit They'll break you in and work you down until you pledge allegiance To a system
Someone said you're feeling ill Well they've got this brand new pill Does anything you want but it doesn't come cheap Fast food particles stick to the
sanctions denied basic rights can't you see the dying ones with those city eyes? America, what have you done? what have you done by playing god? (hey
Who bakes this mess Who set this dinner plate? Pharmacist won't dine on what's prescribed (slightly nutritious, genetically delicious) The cadence rings
100 hammers blazing in the sun The harmonies of the banished ones Along the tower the guard looks on Rifle drawn, trigger finger numb Along the road
Take this medicine Drugged with misconception We make great enemies Pointing fingers often but at who? Those most like you? Power is easy to sustain