Numbers

Tripping the world imperial

(Look inside her)

Leaving the world material

(Can't hide her)

Tripping the world imperial

(Look inside her)

Leaving the world material

(Can't hide her)

Look

At the riverbanks

She's looking

Behind you

The black clouds

They fall hard and heavy

As Eden

Astounds you

So hail to those who give their lives

Who don't stand back when evil rises

It's not a matter of king or country

So you think it is over

Do you think it is really over?

Look up that skyline

There's a bad moon rising

You may not like it

But that's the lizard you're riding

The smiles and suits on TV news, they feed us all

But she's the greatest of liars

The stupid bird who dares to speak the naked truth

Soon lies flat on the wire

So hail to those who give their lives

Who don't stand back when evil rises

It's not a matter of king or country

So you think it is over

Do you think it is really over?

Look up that skyline

There's a bad moon rising

You may not like it

But that's the lizard you're riding

The lizard you're riding

We're all just the same old sinner

Fighting for a piece of nothing

Same mistakes go round again (same stupid men)

Covering up his bloody trail

Cain he came back emptyhanded

With no father blessing and no holy grail

Look around you

Take it in before your day is done

When I found you

I was cold and all my loving gone

Life inside you

Like a spiral sending lifelines from the ground

When I found her

She was cold, still in her wedding gown

Look inside her

And now she's gone so bring the darkness down

She brought the darkness down

Down down down

Down down down

Down down down

Down down down

Tripping the world imperial

Leaving the world material

Tripping the world imperial

Leaving the world material

Trees surround you

They say your body is the garden of your soul

Lights will blind you

And all these roads they say they lead to Rome

Eyes have found her

But you say you're better off alone

Plead forgiveness for a soul that's bad beyond the bone

There's truth in numbers

There's truth in scales

There's truth in science

And truth in sales

And when the sweetness

Comes to an end

You try to bargain

To live again

There's truth in progress

There's truth in fame

There's truth in healing

And the truth remains

And when the sweetness

Comes to an end

You try to bargain

To live again

You look around for the brightest minds

Or just a few simple words of kindness

A world gone shallow, cold, and mean

It's like a wasteland void of dreams

Hoping and praying that we'll find our way back home

There's truth in progress

There's truth in fame

There's truth in healing

And the truth remains

And when the sweetness

Comes to an end

You try to bargain

To live again

You look around for the brightest minds

Or just a few simple words of kindness

Hoping and praying that

We'll find our way back home

That we'll find our way back home

We'll find our way back home

And then the numbers may not come up right

And the artifacts are more than frightening

Between the Bible and eternal question

There's an ocean of fear and we're sinking faster

Look up that skyline

There's a bad moon rising

You may not like it

But that's the lizard you're riding