There's a bottomless pit that we've been climbing from
Just to get on level ground
Shake your seasick legs around
Dead of winter in a logo town
Signs of life are soft and flickeringNeed a bed to lay my body down
Dead weight to carry down
Some static is lulling me to sleepHang your clothes on a chain link fence
In a junkyard say amen
Your mouth is full of wordless hymns
And run-on sentencesAnd they're helpless and forgetting in the background
Holding nothing
And they're youthless and pretending with their bare hands
Holding nothingThere's a million horses dragging down a monolith
With these trademarks so bereaved
Tied my leg to a barricade
With a plastic hand grenade
They tried to turn emotion into noiseNeed a teleprompter for my life
Need a pipeline to the night
My body can't get no reliefAnd this life it goes by fast
You're treading water in the past
Trying to re-animate something that you can't understandAnd they're helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
And he's youthless and forgetting with his bare hands touching nothingAnd he's helpless and forgetting in the background saying nothing
And he's youthless and pretending with his bare hands holding nothing
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