We’re walking on the water
and swimming through the air
we’re flying through our days now
we’ve got no time to care
We’re higher than the Rockies
and deeper than old bones
we’re burying humanity
with eyes glued to our phones
We’re on this roller coaster
our stomachs tied in knots
the butterflies can’t get out
we can’t connect the dots
We’re fluttering through fantasy
and numbing all our pain
our less than living wages
we’re pissing down the drain
It flows into the river
then washes out to sea
mixing with the plastic
you want to walk with me?
Or we can run like water
and leave on all the lights
so truth doesn’t attack us
and we sleep through the night
As rusting bridges fall down
on cities filled with dust
with ashes on our foreheads
in golden calves we trust
It’s beer and wine and old moonshine
and mountains of cocaine
and heroin and Cheshire grins
we’re drinking acid rain
There’s poison in the water
and vultures in the air
we’re pigs before the slaughter
there’s no one left to care
The butchers high on blood now
the baker burned the cake
the candle maker melted
and the jesters on the take
The stakes are high, we’re born we die
and bishops wear gold rings
the queen sideswiped the rook last night
but pawns can take down kings
soitgoes1984 