Friday, October 10, 2008

Burn It Down

And now I wonder what's going on and who's really in another world 
While you're asleep the makeup you're wearing runs down your face like so many tears 
Watch them piss away any hope for change any hope for anything new and 
Watch them burn it down, Turn the hoses on and announce a new beginning
Tonight we wave and give up a smile as a flaming shuttle passes by 
Outside the window something is creeping a burning skeleton beams with pride 
Step over bodies, past corpses in waiting blank it's just a human shell it's just a memory 
Your indecision is a contribution to the cancer that infects the earth 
That impassioned speech almost provides the heat to keep the people sleeping on the streets warm 
out there in the cold in a burnt-out world 
Tonight we'll drink champagne and dance until it's dawn safe inside our fenced and guarded lawns 
Let it burn down tonight ignore the blackened skies pouring down a bloody red rain 
Your television's watching you watching a blank watching a slab of meat you're just a memory 
It's burning down tonight for the rest of your life it's gonna be so cold 
It's gonna be so cold

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