For The Workforce, Drowning

Falling from the top floor your lungs

Fill like parachutes

Windows go rushing by

People inside

Dressed for the funeral in black and white

These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet

Found in the cubicle

Without a name, just numbers

On the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete

Please take these hands

Throw them in the river

Wash away the things they never held

Please take these hands

Throw me in the river

Dont let me drown before the workday ends

9 to 5! 9 to 5!

And we're up to our necks

Drowning in the seconds

Ingesting the morning commute

Lost in a dead subway sleep

We will not lie awake in our parents beds

Tossing and turning

Tomorrow we'll get up

Drive to work

Single file

With everyday

It's like the last

Waiting for the life to start

Is it always just always ahead of the curve?

Please take these hands

Throw them in the river

Wash away the things they never held

Please take these hands

Throw me in the river

Dont let me drown before the workday ends

Just keep making copies

Of copies

Of copies

When will it end?

It'll never end

'Til it gets so bad

That the ink fills in our fingerprints

And the silouhette of your own face becomes the black cloud of

War

And even in our dreams we're so afraid the way we'll offset who

We are

All those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your

Lungs

Last night my teeth fell out like I want

My teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys

And all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the

Sea

And save!

Save our ship

The anchor is part of the desk

We can't cut free

The water is flooding the decks

The memo said through colors

Computers spark like flares

I can see them

They don't touch me

Touch me

Please someone

Teach me how to swim

Please, don't let me drown

Please, don't let me drown