Walked straight for the longest time Never looked at that exit to the other life Kept it airtight, lost all sight Although all I ever had to do was stay blind As well as stay down The eyes are open now and I'm screaming towards the ground Slammed back onstage now where I will mime Through a broken jaw But I forgot again, just my imagination Out of touch with reality again Where the outer surface never rises From the nukes That implode and pass, that implode and pass Even though eventually they'll throw off the mask, Reveal the insides and every past To an empty night when all the flesh Had crawled back into the stale light They've spent their lifelines On making sure I reach their landmines If I had a life I probably wouldn't notice If I had a mind I wouldn't let it choose for me Well the sun's nailed up now The swarms all loose now Preparing in full force to climb their ladders up While their engines drill the skies down As long as it takes to build that armored skyline Under which I've dried up While waiting for the ocean's rise To sweep it all away somehow To the carefree glow of the grey sand Where the blueproof tide unwinds its grasp To the paper shores' sway of an ion sky But now the stillframe skips over and back And all folds away into these cartboard blinds And then I hear the voices whisper: "Give it up" I said: Give it up this isn't what you wanted Now just give it up this isn't what you wanted Give it up, this isn't want we had in mind You had your life to live Now tell me what to do I've got no life I won't even choose