Simply we are the losers Some of the finest loser the game has seen Our blood runs thicker than custard Our feet that drag corpses Our garbage we pile into totems Our prayers they go unanswered Our deepest suspicions always confirmed Our kids don't sing or write letters To them, everything that doesn't explode is mundane 20 time smarter than us, they know the Earth through photos Never touched a dog, or threw a mailbox into the road They never went egging on Halloween, or playing spin the bottle at age 14 They were having kids at 13 Never joined gangs expect for corporations, colleges, armies, and expeditions But never saw war All problems were handled by probability You might win this one, but the next one might be the last the galaxy ever sees Outpost Cut off from the center might disintegrate If no food arrives in 20 light years we're goners They might have burned books for heat But now no one reads And they might have planted plants for air But someone ate the seeds
Lying here on a cut of moon Recycling water and sick of soy Watching others take their own lives I don't want to stop thinking They say "Focus on the light." But here, the night is 13 days, 6 hours and I can't sleep through it
So now we hope for the best and expect to stave to death come winter's winter Thought that god might show us some mercy, but we never showed none Thus I guess we get what we deserve in time Like billions of souls lost in the pitch black Trying to hitchhike back to Jesus's arms But swallowed up into the lungs of alien gods Everywhere we went we were free as a Egyptian slaves to toil and terraform Every success a mini genocide Back home, those who couldn't leave fought bitter victories Millions fought over the Great Lakes Poisoned it's water with shrapnel waste and cooked limbs Needless to say, that was a real tough summer for some But few care about those forgotten nations History began when we let them fill the stars like ants in space The only enemies we found were each other When things get rough, cousins are no long cousins Walking is running and chasing is survival I mean, honestly, graves are desecrated easily With no memory of is this real, am I neurons or data? I must be data, because that makes sense, only machines survive It's too quite, too peaceful Yet somehow I'm content and probably wrong This is most likely real and I'll most likely die before I hit 150 Father and mother, whoever you are, why'd you birth me? Was it ego, or to fight the present, or just to keep that bacteria spreading? Planet to planet all weeds plot for domination We should've know better But who need equilibrium when you've got plasma cannons and robots to do the dirtwork out there? There's too many bosses and no one to trust And no one to pick up your chin when it's too dry for tears