Porcelain and alabaster Decaying ever faster Unaware of imminent disaster Open up your eyes As you ruminate the hopeless sands of time Did you wander
Lacerate, eviscerate and perforate and mutilate We all fall down, all fall down Deprecate, repudiate, ameliorate, adjudicate The wisdom found, wisdom
If I could only get the tools The stimuli and the molecules Frozen moments in time I could be the archetype A credit to the genotype Re-program your
Back in '83, a man came to me And he told me, "Son Our way of life is done" But I was only young With an eye to the fields Speculators and yields rotten
Amid the heat and the wrack Hot boots invested and cracked Poor candidates jacked into gray light An ultra-violent call Summoning both poet and thrall
came to him You could've mistook it for the meaning of sin The women wished him well (Women wished him well) Every time he cast off marching to hell
Now get up and give in, I'll crack your knuckles again Supplicate and survive this transubstantiation And get so mean, I wanna know what it means Did
Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears And lonely eyes look way beyond your years Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury? Your lips turn blue and you're
, yeah Welcome to the new dark ages I hope you're living right Welcome to the new dark ages Say it again, yeah Oh, these are the new dark ages I hope
run Like the blood red path of the western sun, oh yeah The prodigal son is waiting, waiting for his moment to come Well, hell no, don't look at me Can
Oratory of hope and glory, a whisper and a rhyme An effigy, a soldier out of time Citizen and patriot, you can't be far behind The funeral weighing heavy
Dedication is the price you pay Initiated are coddled and caged Before you walk, as soon as you crawl Hope is pointless when you're stuck in the trawl
: Amid the heat and the wrack Hot boots invested and cracked Poor candidates jacked into gray light An ultra-violent call summoning both poet and thrall
: Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate We all fall down, all fall down Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate The wisdom found, wisdom found
avoid those lines of sight and we'll set this right Welcome to the new dark ages I hope you're living right These are the new dark ages And the world
: Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme An effigy, a soldier out of time Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind The funeral is weighting
: Back in '83 a man came to men and he told me "Son, our way of life is done" But I was only young With an eye to the fields speculators and yields
: I know I'm part of something greater than myself Don't know the meaning of it but I hope that matters less I don't know anything when I'm factored
