The sights I've seen, the things I've heard While sliding down the learning curve Their contract promised me the earth Through toothy grins and weasel words
With normal jobs and normal lives They force us to this compromise Where labour lives and leisure dies And most of us get by
But I remember the future used to be better I still remember, the future used to be better
Now voyager, what's left? You moved so fast you missed the best And all you got was out of breath You could call that success
But I remember the future used to be better Do you remember? The future used to be better
Go on, admit it - you know you want to see All those blank pages in my diary
I'm long on patience, short on cash My car and my computer crashed I'm halfway there and halfway back The world pissed on my purple patch The light's blocked out, now nothing grows They've dumbed me down with news and soaps The end result of all my hopes - Paper cuts from the edge of the envelope