This city has plagiarized your thoughts This city has ruined all that there was left in me Cigarette stained teeth chatter in the winter's air And broken people quench the cycle Of these broken habits These broken habits And I'm looking through the window To a life I could have lead Where I would be sober and normal If I just walked through the door Through that door But darlin' I can't lie to you That the sun feels so good out here Yeah darlin' I can't lie to you That the sun feels so good out here I'm not growing up I'm slowly dying Pokin' holes in the pixels Of this decaying portrait This life we lead is a bittersweet distraction As the grown child screams For more and more attention And the muffled ears of the spectators Render indifferent Wrinkled brow shy to anything But solitude and silence But I'm begging you darlin' Don't lull your thoughts into compliance Yeah I'm begging you darlin' Don't lull your thoughts into compliance Even after the match is burnt out The fire that it lit still rages on Even after the match is burnt out The fire that it lit still rages on Even after the match is burnt out The fire that it lit still rages on Even after the match is burnt out The fire that it lit still rages on And on and on and on and on So darlin' bottles up and carry on