Disastronaut

We are encoded at birth to feel what we are told to feel Proof of your existence is pain Proof of your existence is pleasure We are encoded at birth to feel what we are told to feel Violence in silence, we breathe Soaked in their bitter apathy Proof of your existence is pain Proof of your existence is pleasure

"I'm taking both sides Man, I'm taking both sides I can't afford to lose any friends over this" Yeah, you've got somewhere to hide For now, you're free Man, when you take both sides You're losing me 'cause it's a long way down from the underground Maybe this time you could compromise between your reputation and the truth You want to take both sides while you've got somewhere to hide I bet that house of cards will soon catch fire and burn and burn 'cause it's a long way down from the underground

When your love comes home in a body bag or the memories start to fade When the man with the gun draws faster than you can or the pages burn away We'll play keep away from the sand man til the bad dreams are all gone Stay inside, stay alive while the night just rolls along We'll find safety in the moon light with your hands still cold in mine Everyone else can go to Hell because I'm drawing a line in your dreams around you

[narrated by a television] "You see in me the things that you are not You see in me the things you haven't got The life you want comes at a price that you can't pay Would you really want to if you had your way? Would you want to? Pain fills me, yet I feel nothing at all I'll teach you just the same, to build your wall The life you want comes at a price that you can't pay Would you really want to if you had your way? Would you want to?"

Are you running away from all the things that they say or are you running away from yourself? I'm out of breath running from irrelevance like an avalanche bearing down You can run, run, run til the sun comes up It's hard times in the fast lane because the weather never changes in cyberspace It's hard times in the fast lane when I'm spinning, I'm spinning, I'm spinning I'm out of breath running from irrelevance like an avalanche bearing down You can run, run, run til the sun comes up Spinning, feel sick and I want to get off right now I'm out of breath running from irrelevance like an avalanche bearing down You can run, run, run til the sun comes up Spinning, feel sick and I want to get off right now

I've seen you coming around my bend A long-lost and fair-weather friend How long you gonna stay this time? Stepping on my toes like a landmine Fly away These days, you're a shadow on my wall The substance makes you barely there at all How much do you need this time? Stepping on my toes like a landmine Fly away

Summertime in Augusta never seemed so blue Blue as you, and me, and us Hiding out in the bedroom with nothing on and nothing to do Nowhere to go and nothing to lose Because Thanksgiving's just a lie and Christmas always makes me cry I just want to go somewhere where every day is Halloween Honestly, you'd never know it meant so much to me More than I let on and more than I'd ever show Thirty-one days in the month of my birth Time that I've been given to walk on this earth with you Oh, how the years fly by and still I know that when I die I just want to go somewhere where every day is Halloween The road rumbles under my feet Kicking hard, pushing on The black cape flaps in the wind Skeleton mask, and Summer's almost gone Skateboarding down Walton Way carries me to a sunset from which I fear we will never recover Loved ones die Months wilt away Moments pass I have no say but this - this is forever

...all we say can come true Nightmares are dreams, too Was there a world before all this? Was it blue? What was it like? I'm starting to forget Was the sky ever blue? Nightmares are dreams, too Waking in the light Back seat view of time with its brake line cut Barreling toward nothing All this time, all these ways All we say can come true Nightmares are dreams, too Was the sky ever blue?