You say you’ve seen it, say you’ve done it

Say you know what it’s like

You say you’ve got it in your pocket

But I think it’s a lie

And all the anecdotes you overwrote

Are creeping through your pores

Stepping in through open doors

I don’t know why I’m wasting my time

On a merry-go-round with my feet off the ground

But it feels too real to let go

Time and time again, proven to be true

We remake our mistakes the way we were born to do

(All you’ve seen, it all seems to fade away)

(All you’ve been, it all seems to fade away)

You say you want it, gotta have it

And you ain’t giving in

It’s not a problem, just a habit

But it’s wearing you thin

And all the antidotes you overdose

Are chipping you away

All your edges start to fray

I don’t know why I’m wasting my time

On a merry-go-round with my feet off the ground

But it feels too real to let go

Time and time again, proven to be true
We remake our mistakes the way we were born to do

Time would be a witness if you showed your spine

And I could forge forgiveness if you spoke your mind

Time and time again, proven to be true

We remake our mistakes the way we were born to do

So much bad news on every screen

That you start to believe you woke up in a dream

Every day kinda feels like it might be your last

When you spend all your time getting lost in the past

Maybe it’s time to let it go

Maybe it’s time to breathe

Sailing through oceans of smoke on my own

Maybe it’s time to be

Meanwhile

Meanwhile the world turns, we let it all burn

We don’t ever wanna fight, only ever wanna die on our own terms

Meanwhile the world turns, we watch the lawn burn

We don’t ever wanna fight, only ever wanna die on our own terms, own terms

They’re leading the lambs to the slaughter

So lock up your sons and your daughters

One day they’ll remember what they oughta

What his mother taught him, what her father bought her

Once you bleed into the water all the sharks’ll come in

Start to wonder why you never bothered learning to swim

Maybe one day I’ll decide to take a dive on a whim

Just hoping to skim the surface

Maybe it’s time to let it go

Maybe it’s time to breathe

Sailing through oceans of smoke on my own

Maybe it’s time to be

Meanwhile

So give me advice and I’ll take it

Or perhaps enough money to make it

But give me your heart and I’ll break it

In some way or another

And I’m really trying my best here

In my shelter I wait for the all-clear

Something feels so out of place here

I feel like I’m being chased here

Meanwhile the world turns, we let it all burn

We don’t ever wanna fight, only ever wanna die on our own terms

Meanwhile the world’s aflame, we played the long game

We don’t ever wanna fight, only ever wanna die on our own terms, own terms

Meanwhile the world turns

Meanwhile the world burns

I detect an echo of a lie on your tongue

Maybe it’s my ego, but I’m inclined to run

Forget forgiveness, your wrath is all you need

I’ve been a witness to your love’s greed

Forget forgiveness, a path is all you need

To follow down with me

You’re on my mind every time I feel like I’ve figured it out

Now I’m showered in doubt

Architect of fiction, is there truth in your lie?

A walking contradiction, I see it pass me by

Forget forgiveness, your wrath is all you need

I’ve been a witness to your love’s greed

Forget forgiveness, a path is all you need

To follow down with me

You’re on my mind every time I feel like I’ve figured it out

Now I’m showered in doubt

Believe me, I’m bleeding

Yet breathing, I’m leaving

You’re on my mind every time I feel like I’ve figured it out

Now I’m showered in doubt

A bone of contention to keep in the attic

Hearing your voice in television static

Decoding messages printed in prose

Always the feeling you’re never alone

Skin on my body, I’m gone in my head

All of the wolves are waiting to be fed

They’ve come to rip me and tear me apart

It’s over before I could start

Do I defy your expectation?

‘Cause you caught my eye but I passed you by

With no hesitation

Consulting the mirror and hoping to see

Something that’s still recognisably me

Such things are bred in captivity

Knock your longevity down by a good few years

I’ve had enough time to sit and to think

Plenty of decades are gone in a blink

Where will you go if you can’t find me now?

If I never tell you how

Do I defy your expectation?

‘Cause you caught my eye but I passed you by

With no hesitation

White noise fills my body up and I can’t drown it out

Seems to have me praying though I’ve never been devout

I never thought, I never thought that it would end like this

I never thought, I never thought that it would end like this

Do I defy your expectation?

‘Cause you caught my eye but I passed you by

With no hesitation

Getting cold, my spirit sold, I start to slip away

Inside a cage of ribs I kept a beast

And she snips heartstrings like clipping wings

They’re freshly tuned to play

It seems to keep her occupied at least

Try as I might to retire at night

I’ve been setting myself up to fail

She moves with the breeze and she departs with ease

But her breath couldn’t power the sail

A fresh sun is rising above the horizon

With no destination in sight

In circles we travel and start to unravel

Delirium’s born in the night

Shallow as a shot glass, we shattered on the ground

Hollow like a high pass filter on the sound

I am only half-here, something is amiss

But I don’t think it’s going to get better than this

Woke up Wednesday morning, broken bed frame’s made us sore

She picks another face from piles of laundry on the floor

And I can’t help but miss the girl she was the week before

She’s coming around again, another stranger to the door

I’m growing tired of wanting more, these roots have failed to take

And now the seeds are sewn at least it wasn’t my mistake

She moves and twists, she’s unrestrained like grapes on winding vine

But in my haste I didn’t taste the poison in the wine

Shallow as a shot glass, we shattered on the ground

Hollow like a high pass filter on the sound

I am only half-here, something is amiss

But I don’t think it’s going to get better than this

I don’t think it’s gonna get better than this

(Saccharine lips, venomous kiss)

I don’t think it’s gonna get better than this

(Childish games, swing and a miss)

I don’t think it’s gonna get better than

Shallow as a shot glass, we shattered on the ground

Hollow like a high pass filter on the sound

I am only half-here, something is amiss

But I don’t think it’s going to get better than this

It was less of a ‘goodbye,’ more ‘never again’

But time didn’t stop, the world didn’t end

I kept on living as I had before

Once I’d scrubbed out the stains that you left on my floor

In public I passed you, I quickened my stride

But couldn’t decipher the look in your eye

When I had you, I gave it my best

But these days I understand less

An underwater town where the people never drown

I can’t figure out how you survive

Quietly written off the map when you fell into the trap

Now it’s just a way to feel alive

One more try

Dying in a daydream

Sleeping in the slipstream

Giving the last of what you had

To something bad for you

But what could I, what could I do?

When it’s all you know

And you know you’ve got to get by

But will it ever be enough?

A stranger’s silhouette is asking for a cigarette

I think he needs is more than me

And sympathy is duty-free

Body’s been eroding like the coast

You’ve become the ordinary ghost

It’s not my place to understand

I’ve lived my whole life on the land

Dying in a daydream

Sleeping in the slipstream

Giving the last of what you had

To something bad for you

But what could I, what could I do?

When it’s all you know

And you know you’ve got to get by

But will it ever be enough?

A teaspoon of Neptune could wash you away

From your saline daydream you’ve drifted astray

Your captain’s been calling but you can’t hear him

For you’re captive and caught in the mess you've been

Dying in a daydream

Sleeping in the slipstream

And all you ever had

Was only bad for you

Running for the lighthouse

Resting in the shark’s mouth

It’s all gotten a bit too much now

Run, run, run

Run into the light, run into the light

Oh holy concrete corner

Furthest from the sun

The water’s come to cleanse me

But the deal is done

You defeat me, you complete me

You are everything I shouldn’t like

You erase me, you deface me

I tried, I couldn’t see the other side

So I’ll keep

Bringing it on with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

Getting along with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Then I’m breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

You evade me, you persuade me

You make nothing look like quite a lot

You betray me, you decay me

I rot, you’re everything I haven’t got

Bringing it on with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

Getting along with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Then I’m breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

I said I’d give it so I’m giving it all, I’m giving it all

I’m giving it all and you can take me away

Bringing it on with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

Getting along with you

(Bringing it on, we’re bringing it on)

Then I’m breaking it off with you

(Breaking it off, we’re bringing it on)

Call me necromancer, I’m communing with the dead

Calling on the spirits that reside inside my head

The eye that guides the mind is not a blessing in disguise, it lies

Can’t predict the future, I’m without a crystal ball

But how can I know peace if I can never know it all?

Studying the sequence of the rising and the fall, frightful

I don’t want to love if it ends in pain

I’m fighting the feeling that it’s in vain

And I told myself I wouldn’t try again

But here we are, cutting over the old scars

The black dog may be sleeping but I’ll never let him lie

For the secrets that I’m keeping never wither, never die

Neverending is the circle that’s been running rings around my mind

Creeping down my body is a different kind of cold

Keeps me from the present though my bones are growing old

Dripping from my fingers is a story never told, unsolved

I don’t want to love if it ends in pain

I’m fighting the feeling that it’s in vain

And I told myself I wouldn’t try again

But here we are, cutting over the old scars

So keep me at an arm’s distance

I don’t require assistance

The path of least resistance

Keep me an at arm’s distance

I don’t want to love if it ends in pain

I’m fighting the feeling that it’s in vain

And I told myself I wouldn’t try again

But here we are, cutting over the old scars

The old scars, the old scars

The old scars, we open the old scars

I packed my bags for planet Earth

‘Cause I had to burst my bubble universe

It’s time I started running, ‘cause I can hear them coming

I think they’re coming for me

It’s time I started running, cause I could hear them come in

I think they’re coming for me

And I am ready for the countdown

(Three, two, one, I’m gone)

I feel like an extraterrestrial

‘Cause I’m so out of place in the human world

Maybe you could take me to your leader

Maybe you could take me to your leader

I tried to shed my skin, to free the alien within

But I couldn’t shift my shape or choose the form I’d rather take

It’s time I started running, ‘cause I can hear them coming

I think they’re coming for me

It’s time I started running, cause I could hear them come in

I think they’re coming for me

And I am ready for the countdown

(Three, two, one, I’m gone)

I feel like an extraterrestrial

‘Cause I’m so out of place in the human world

Maybe you could take me to your leader

Maybe you could take me to your leader

I feel alienated and spatially frustrated

I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know what I’m doing here

My face illuminated, chemically sedated

I don’t know what I’m doing, I don’t know what I’m doing here

I am not man, not machine, not a mind

I am leaving this place and the earthlings behind

I am sick of the sirens and pigs in the streets

With chips on their shoulders and quotas to meet

See the rich ones a feasting on blood of the poor

All their bellies have burst but they’re hungry for more

And the war, and the war shakes your bones through the floor

‘Til the button gets pressed and the world is no more

It’s a bore, it’s a chore and I’ve stopped keeping score

‘Cause the data’s corrupted, it’s riddled with flaws

I’d set sail for Nibiru, make do with the moon

But I’ve landed, I’m stranded, a stranger marooned

Seasons changing overnight are burdened by atomic blight

The winter’s come to never end and spring will not begin again

Reactor four began to burn, when fallout came the tables turned

And to this day no one could look upon the elephantine foot

Disaster strikes and the people flee

The rising smoke and burnt debris

And silhouetted in the sky

Are blazing towers miles high

A time in living memory

Of Earth stripped bare for all to see

The life and land that’s laid to waste

A sordid scent, metallic taste

In the zone of alienation, too far from home, further from salvation

Glean violent reds from vibrant green

In the zone of alienation, mourning the bones of civilisation

The iodine won’t keep you clean

Mutant birds sing sickened songs about the day the world went wrong

Arisen from the toxic earth, a day of death, a day of birth

Hollow houses, shops and schools do not abide by Earthly rules

For ground we scarcely dare to tread could leave us something worse than dead

A vision of a future world

A finger on a trigger, curled

If only we could stop to think

To patch the holes before we sink

In the zone of alienation, too far from home, further from salvation

Glean violent reds from vibrant green

In the zone of alienation, mourning the bones of civilisation

The iodine won’t keep you clean

Spin upon the Pripyat wheel

Of faded paint and rusted steel

To float above the ravaged ground

And trees of crimson, gold and brown

No broken bones, no spiteful dreams

Could hope to stitch the splitting seams

Of flesh and blood and DNA

We turn to dust and we blow away

In the zone of alienation, too far from home, further from salvation

Glean violent reds from vibrant green

In the zone of alienation, mourning the bones of civilisation

The iodine won’t keep you clean