The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows ♪ The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn ♪ We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death ♪ The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles ♪ It went like this: The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair ♪ The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze
I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" ♪ You grabbed my hand and we fell into it Like a daydream or a fever ♪ We woke up one morning and fell a little further down - For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood