It rose before they even noticed
Another pyramid devised
On top a sleepless eye
Below they wondered why
They failed to strike at the foundation

And either way it's suicide
A loss unless they climb
Lie back or cross a great divide

Can't see the city from the hi

I always thought you'd have your day
You always got to have your way

Your image burned onto their brains
Caught in that pose trapped in that frame

I always thought you'd have your day
An afterthought a pleasant stay

I went away to see some friends that i had made
Back in brighter days
They had not aged they just found a very cozy cage
And that was where they stayed
The sunlight barely carved its way into the room
The windows painted on the walls
And i found no answers
No cures no

You don't know where you've gone
The past few years went on too long
You don't know where you've gone
You don't know what you did
To get to a place like this
You don't know what you did

The bright lights shone right through
The holes that grew inside you head
Ca

Rely on comfort flaws still life embrace disaster
Effect before the cause will only kill us faster
Though we all must learn to bear imperfect children
Some handicaps are self inflicted

What else can you do these eyes all over you
What else can you do these eyes all over you

don't you know that maps can't be drawn in a day
they draw themselves
hide from shadows seeping from a fractured sky
surrendered eyes
there are choices other than just fight or flight
wrong or right

They made speeches preparations unavoidable the day
When a future great eradicator comes
Biding silently the tidings as there's little left to say
Little time little minds little ones

Hear the echoes of a nightmare close their minds to the decay
Sifting through the languid

Unrestrained you stitch fires with your searchlights
Reordained and deputized
The polite rephrasings of the warcrime mind

On for days no questions no answers
Unconstrained by writ of right
Just rending and contending out of sight

You maintain that we are on one side h

On sound foundation old failures rise
Prolonged cessation feign paradise
With victim eyes and strangled hollers
Phantom designs

Rebuild fast forward slow mortal sigh
Surrendered mortar glass raised too high
Supported by cold architecture
False profit's prize

O

Through a crack in the shield our eyes look screaming
Yellow wide unyielding lines
Spreading dread leaves roadkill sleeping
We float we fly we gloat we glide we hide we find
We don't deny we've left our destiny behind

Unsustainable lies built at small testaments
Isolate

Sometimes i get the feeling that this really never was my home
A 1957 kind of heaven sent remote control
A boring bird a bitter word a re-recurring picture show
We watch together tracking weather barely tethered from below

We hover high an open eye to always see just where we a

Tacit acquiescence quaintly burns till we acquire
A pride in all the work we have not done
Begging retired accusations we sickly string ourselves along

Rightly fighting for a future free from formless ire
How the desperate long to be enthralled
We bite the mouths off our em

There's something in the gold that we're digging
The ground is sore but the axe still falls
And still we mine for fame and for fortune
And fall asleep each night against the bankrupt walls
Your instruments
Your tools for removal
Their every swing just quotes the ghosts of

The lights they go down slowly as the cheering voices fade
Bereft of all the guilt in which the victors surely trade
The story's so familiar but the truth we can't ignore
We stomp and stutter madly for the constant guts and gore
We are the audience
We are the trusted fools