Had a Life

Walked straight for the longest time

Never looked at that exit to the other life

Kept it airtight, lost all sight

Although all I ever had to do was stay blind

As well as stay down

The eyes are open now and I'm screaming towards the ground

Slammed back onstage now where I will mime

Through a broken jaw

But I forgot again, just my imagination

Out of touch with reality again

Where the outer surface never rises

From the nukes

That implode and pass, that implode and pass

Even though eventually they'll throw off the mask,

Reveal the insides and every past

To an empty night when all the flesh

Had crawled back into the stale light

They've spent their lifelines

On making sure I reach their landmines

If I had a life

I probably wouldn't notice

If I had a mind

I wouldn't let it choose for me

Well the sun's nailed up now

The swarms all loose now

Preparing in full force to climb their ladders up

While their engines drill the skies down

As long as it takes to build that armored skyline

Under which I've dried up

While waiting for the ocean's rise

To sweep it all away somehow

To the carefree glow of the grey sand

Where the blueproof tide unwinds its grasp

To the paper shores' sway of an ion sky

But now the stillframe skips over and back

And all folds away into these cartboard blinds

And then I hear the voices whisper: "Give it up"

I said:

Give it up this isn't what you wanted

Now just give it up this isn't what you wanted

Give it up, this isn't want we had in mind

You had your life to live

Now tell me what to do

I've got no life

I won't even choose