The Future We Build

Slipping through the satin ribbons, champagne glasses, brightened laughter

Obsessed with this vision that I'm meaning something

Wave and smile, wave and smile, let us dance into the sun

Taken to the marble floor, flowing music, we fly so high

Touching stars and dust, nothing is darkened

I spin and stare at the unreality

 

Marble shatters, I fall through to the real

Now I can see what you've meant all this time

We'd traded our lives for a gilded guillotine

Satin ribbons turn to dust, champagne to Whiskey and Gin

Leering laughter as I stumble into this world of real

All faces look suspicious, and I'm shaking, I'm reeling

I can't believe these things that I'm feeling

And now I can feel your pain, I'm sorry I now see

 

I know that everyone is here, but I turn and they turn as well

Everyone I looked up to once shed their skins to become the villains

Heroes turn to ash in burning flames of the undead and I'm cast out

And now I can feel your pain, I'm sorry I now see

Your children are dying for your lost causes and crimson eyes with green lined pockets

 

I'm thinking I'm crazy as I stand here in the red

Staring at castles crashing and falling into dark

Flames taking their place, casting shadows to the broken sky

Organs chime death and laugh darkly in their sick humor at failed attempts

Heavied footsteps march to our deaths 1-2-and-3 Turn. Gunshots fire

Trading neckties for nooses, and wedding bands for weapons

Blame has been given the name Murder as we carve our coffins and point our broken fingers

Shadows fall from towers with arms outstrechted casting crosses against the walls 

 

This world of fire and brimstone, fabricated from your sermons of damnation

Finally coming to surface under your supervision

This place you called Redemption, a land of forgiveness

Who're the villains of the damned in your eyes now?

You children that cower, look at what we've made for you

Intake the breath of smoke and vision of the reality we've worked so hard to create for you

 

I want to say goodbye. I wish to leave but everywhere else is gone

I shead my first tears of malice and cry for a future that will never be

Now I can see your pain, I'm sorry I now see

God save us, God save us we've blown out your candles

But they won't stop us. They can't hold us

I won't give up, the end is so much closer than it was before

I know this night will one day end

Without us or not

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