I can’t ever seem to sleep And the TVs leer as they parody me Their chatter sucks the air from whole rooms No matter how many I turn off
Is this really how the world sees me? Is the screen the lens of the mind’s eye? I can feel myself shrink as the wilderness grows And the microchips chirp in mocking conspiracy
The dying newspapers boil over with rumors And no one can hear the bombs bursting from here The charlatan experts prey on our fear And the doctors prescribe palliative insecticides For cancers they planted themselves at your birth And the books are bound up with third-hand hearsay
But who can be trusted to pick out the liars? I’d do to them what they’re doing to me I can feel myself shrink as the wilderness grows And the microchips chirp in mocking conspiracy
‘Round here Ninety million tons of concrete Press down On their tired eyes and soft frames ‘Round here Their brains collapse before their bodies White noise Clogging every orifice like glue
I haven’t slept in weeks A lifetime has passed and I don’t know a thing And I don’t give a fuck what happens to me All I want is to go to sleep