Steph Something & Matt Kaprelian
I see you in moments and depths of despair
There's nothing more poignant than what isn't there
You make your decisions with scalpel precision
Declaring your stance by sheer rote and revision
This is life
Inside the machine
This is life
Behind the facade of the American dream
There is sweat on your brow and blood on your feet
The river's too wide and still waters too deep
There is pain in your suffering that has no reprieve
The story's unending, the snake eats it’s tale eternally
This is life
Inside the machine
This is life
Behind the facade of the American dream
In a moment of enlightenment filled with
Despair
You take to your bed as you shake out your
Hair
Too much pain when awake and too much
Regret
Even when battered and bruised and cut to the
Quick
And in the knowledge of wisdom that hits like a
Ba, ba, ba, ba brick
As when opposites attract unlike magnets
Reversed
Where Eve is engendered as Adam
Returned to the earth
While traditions are broken
And favors
Withdrawn
In the hope of a new age
Pandemonium is born
There is pain in the knowledge
There is
No kingdom come
So much pain to endure
When the truth is undone
So gather up the pieces all tattered and torn
Let the darkness evolve as the light is foregone
They never gave you a fight, no you never ever had a shot
The lie is more biblical more often than not
This is life
Inside the machine
This is life
Behind the facade of the American dream
You're standing alone as the ruins remain
Another reminder as you
Are writhing in pain
Because they couldn’t
Make a penny off a dead man, no
Because they couldn’t
Make a penny off a dead man, no
Because they couldn’t
Make a penny off a dead man, no
So they decided to kill nice and
Slow