Symphony of Fear
Turn it on.
Turn it on.
Blue light. Blue light.
Nothing's wrong.
Nothing's wrong.
Every screen is a window.
Every window is a mouth.
Every mouth is a siren
selling terror to the south.
They feed you fear for breakfast.
They feed you fear for lunch.
They feed you fear for dinner
and they call it keeping touch.
Headline. Horror. Headline. Horror.
Scroll. Scroll. Scroll. Scroll.
Bodies in a far-off country.
Bodies in a shopping mall.
And the fear gets in the water.
And the fear gets in the blood.
And the children start to flinch
before they even learn to love.
And the house begins to shake.
And the locks begin to turn.
And the neighbor is a stranger.
And the stranger wants to burn.
And the medicine is poison.
And the poison is a cure.
And the only thing that's certain
is the fear. The fear. The fear.
Symphony of fear —
every channel, every year,
every whisper in your ear,
till the love turns into tear.
Symphony of fear —
every city, every street,
every heart that skips a beat,
till the hate becomes the beat.
And we dance.
And we dance.
And we dance to the symphony of fear.
Father hits the bottle.
Mother hits the wall.
Child hits the silence
and the silence hits us all.
Anxiety. Addiction.
Diagnosis. Debt.
Someone sold the sickness
and we haven't paid it yet.
And the doctor is a salesman.
And the priest is a brand.
And the only thing they're teaching
is the fear. The fear. The fear.
I haven't slept in twenty years.
I check the locks at night.
I read the news and feel my chest
collapse against the light.
My mother died afraid.
My father died alone.
And the screen was glowing softly
when they finally took them home.
And I don't know what is real.
And I don't know what is mine.
But I know the fear was given.
And I know the fear was designed.
And the house begins to shake.
And the locks begin to turn.
And the neighbor is a stranger.
And the stranger wants to burn.
And the medicine is poison.
And the poison is a cure.
And the only thing that's certain
is the fear. The fear. The fear.
Symphony of fear —
every channel, every year,
every whisper in your ear,
till the love turns into tear.
Symphony of fear —
every city, every street,
every heart that skips a beat,
till the hate becomes the beat.
And we dance.
And we dance.
And we dance to the symphony of fear.
Listen. Listen.
Do you hear it?
Do you hear it?
The hum. The hum.
The low hum under everything.
The hum that never stops.
The hum that tells you
you are not safe.
You were never safe.
You will never be safe.
Buy. Watch. Repeat.
Buy. Watch. Repeat.
Fear. Screen. Coin. Vein.
Child. Clone. Debt. Chain.
Fear. Screen. Coin. Vein.
Child. Clone. Debt. Chain.
And the hum gets louder.
And the hum gets louder.
And the hum gets —
Symphony of fear —
every channel, every year,
every whisper in your ear,
till the love turns into tear.
Symphony of fear —
every city, every street,
every heart that skips a beat,
till the hate becomes the beat.
And we dance.
And we dance.
And we dance to the symphony of fear.
Turn it off.
Turn it off.
I can't.
Turn it off.
I can't.
I can't.
I can't.
Turn it off.
Turn it —