This Future -

Well, it’s been years since you’ve been around

Had a life worth talking about

Working toward something bigger than you

Could ever hope to build alone

Waiting for waves to overflow

And pull you under

Until another outcast finds you

You can try too hard to dig yourself out

And rise above the noise

Your choice

You can scream so loud that the whole world hears your voice

You’re gonna need it anyway

When some other human beings start accusing you

Of not being human too

Remember you and I still outnumber

The last gasp of a spiteful few

This future’s looking unappealing

Still haven’t found a rhyme nor reason

Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime

We’re wasting time

Once a home, now ten feet deep

A generation left in the heat

We’ll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world we leave behind

Resist to live in parody

Of what was once so promising

«Onward, upward,»

We told ourselves to get us through the

Circus of lies and ignorance

Indifferent misanthropists

Taking, taking

'Til there’s nothing left to feed the greed

It’s far too late to count yourself out

When you’re caught in the machine

Indeed

Disease has spread and I’m calling for a quarantine

What happened to us anyway?

This future’s looking unappealing

Still haven’t found a rhyme nor reason

Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime

We’re wasting time

Once a home, now ten feet deep

A generation left in the heat

We’ll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world

A world without us

Make no mistake

This is the calm before the storm

So sink or swim, my friends

This ice is growing warm

No, wait!

Don’t give up so easy

Get up and out and kill your TV

Nobody fixed nothing for no one just sitting around

We are not gonna be set back

By philistines in red snapbacks

We’ve come too far to let each other drown

This future’s looking unappealing

Still haven’t found a rhyme nor reason

Beyond a shadow of a dollar or a dime

We’re wasting time

Once a home, now ten feet deep

A generation left in the heat

We’ll surf the hurricanes and contemplate the world

A world without