And all the masks I carry on my face For you, for another some calm and then some grace But once within a long and broken night A face like mine, bereft
When did life get so, get so complicated When did time start, start accelerating Make life slower Stop life growing If we can still fall in love If we
I live to fall asleep It's when I stop the hate I never want to dream It infiltrates beauty I live to fall asleep Regenerate and sin Skin so tense gives
Strung out eyes as cold as worship Two minutes silence in a century of screams Tiny massive hands, emphatic lonely soul Skin against skin and blood against
Emily, Emily, you're gift to me Emily, a modern sense of beauty Emily, as precious as your memory A simple word called liberty The relics, the ghosts
To feel forgiveness, you gotta forgive Do you see the stars or the darkness begin? You fight your war, I fight for my life You pay your dues, and I'll
I'm no longer preaching to the converted That congregation has long ago deserted All we discovered was even more despair But we learned how to cope, we
The more I want to be me The less I know myself The living left to die While ghosts are brought to life Welcome to these slave trades Drained of delusion
Wipe those tears away Keep as still as you can Hold your breath and dig deep And stop those trembling hands Make yourself pretty Just for one last time
The platitudes they all dissolved They got too deep, got too involved The platitudes just interludes To break the trust with me and you Oh, what a shangrila
The modern world sits so easily A different kind of honesty Yes, I worship at the altar I am a happy consumer A record shop and some clarity Don't need
Will my kingdom disappear and fade away? Will sleep overcome the hurt and then decay? I can't be poisoned and you will not make me cry I've cleansed my
I don't believe the absolutes anymore I'm quite prepared to admit I was wrong This life it sucks your principles away You have to fight against it every
I think I've found it And I think I love it Buried in the dirt Hiding from the light So I walked to the sea Threw a pebble in for you and me A day of
We've finally found a way To consume boredom every day We've all become our personal gods We've all become so sad and lost So sad, so sad, so sad and
The sky is falling in on you Crushed any happiness you viewed That you need more so you feel love It still never be gone Remember you stretched out in
The lines have all been blurred To the point of no return The sickos and the bullies praise your name You then wrench their lives with pleasure and fame
Christmas day, stuck in the seventies Play all day with your Scalectrics Oh my god, I got a tomahawk How sweet life can be No X-Box and no computers