If I don’t believe it, it must not be true I tell them just what they want to hear I know that secrets don’t make friends So all this time I ‘withheld information’ There should be truth, there should be lies If I close my eyes it won’t be there If we fake it enough it’ll never come There’s a pill for it all, always ‘the next-best alternative’ And then there’s honesty, how can we be honest anymore? There should be truth, there should be lies All you have to do is just sound like you mean it To make it feel like it should There should be truth, there should be lies

We tore our bodies We bit our lips We sighed and we whispered Things we didn’t understand The words we spoke only once, then repeated With tied hands and doubt stands between us We clawed at our skin Swallowed our spit And bled with conviction For things we didn’t understand The words we spoke only once, then repeated With tied hands and doubt stands between us We weren’t enough for crimes

All the multi-colored lights light up And take their place Traffic accidents, incurable disease Are just some of the things stopping me From enjoying the safety of the window seat Holiday lights outline bare branches of trees Caller ID kills the mystery And fate kills a poor man But the doorman who holds all the keys Says to me “What are you waiting for?” All the colors of this spectrum Are separate, are defined And the lights that blink, year to year, they dare to hang there Where you won’t be, on strings I was once there and now I am not I was once there and now I am not All the good endings take too long I prefer the bad ones that plunge into the depths Of the deepest grief and sorrow with no hope for a morrow I think I got it figured out this time Agents sworn to secrecy Know all the secrets surrounding “Natural selection” dictates who gets picked to play But you know in my pocket I house my empty wallet (so) All the colors of this spectrum Are separate, are defined And the lights that blink, year to year, they dare to hang there Where you won’t be, on strings I was once there and now I am not I was once there and now I am not All the good endings take too long I prefer the bad ones that plunge into the depths Of the deepest grief and sorrow with no hope for a morrow I think I got it figured out this time Carcinogens and toxins Always find a way into my lungs All the good endings take too long I prefer the bad ones that plunge into the depths Of the deepest grief and sorrow with no hope for a morrow I think I got it figured out this time All the multi-colored lights light up And take their place.

What is clinically proven, theoretically stable? The operating system of a controlled environment. When all things synthesize, Laws of Matter will compromise Still you must color between the lines, color between Intelligent design, schematics and conveyor lines Are conveying all of the answers While the Automated Teller Machine and Man, transactions pass between Yes, they pass between, pass between Let’s talk linear Let’s draw diagrams Let’s talk linear Let’s talk This is Science, Basic Mechanics

I heard the black waters roll But I didn’t see you comin’ See you comin’ Patterned after the wreckage There was the setup, of course it was setup You knew it was setup Out of the blackout I did the right thing

The stop sign reminds me what to do But I can’t stop thinking Of things that didn’t happen and won’t But I can’t separate reality from my tv Are things going your way? Or are you stuck waiting in waiting rooms? The stop sign reminds me what to do But I can’t stop thinking A hundred telephone calls, a thousand unclasped bras A million more hypothetical situations Are things going your way? Or are you stuck waiting in waiting rooms? The stop sign reminds me what to do But I won’t stop thinking It’s full light outside and my alarm clock’s screaming I’m just dreaming till I get the wake up call Are things going your way? Or are you stuck waiting in waiting rooms? Are things going your way? When you spend all your time waiting in waiting rooms?

For every word you speak there is a sound And in each sound there lies a heart with a secret And All these sounds sounded together Sound like a song we could all happily sing along People meet behind closed doors to sign papers that Bind to keep formalities Like components A and B must go together Directions say this is how it should be It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean, you don’t mean, your name escapes me It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean, you don’t mean, your name escapes me It’s push push, it’s shove shove It’s shake shake to get what you want It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean you don’t mean, your name escapes me For every promise there are two ends And one end goes on while the other falls in And all these promises promised together Promise us nothing and so we move along People meet behind closed doors to sign papers that Bind to keep formalities Like components A and B must go together Directions say this is how it should be It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean, you don’t mean, your name escapes me It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean, you don’t mean, your name escapes me It’s push push, it’s shove shove It’s shake shake to get what you want It’s talk talk, it’s touch touch I don’t mean you don’t mean, your name escapes me

Terminals and bus stops Coffee shops and boardwalks Over the intercoms Looking for someones Islands of people Drift along sidewalks Points of departure Distance and space Maybe there’s a light on But there could be no one

Our lips are sealed, we’re not telling Our doors are shut, we’re not seeing Our ears are deaf, we’re not listening Our eyes are closed, we’re not believing No one has to know No one has to know We are in this together Our secret’s safe from each other We will go on avoiding And see how long we can be convincing Have we hit the mark? Have we hit all of our marks? Let’s keep this discreet Let’s sweep this under the rug Let’s keep this discreet No one has to know No one has to know My feelings need validating, My feelings need validating lies. Let’s keep this discreet Let’s sweep this under the rug Let’s keep this discreet No one has to know No one has to know

There is no such thing as forever And we will all be strangers again And when there’s nothing we will start over First talk of the change in weather Asking to leave it all behind And when there’s nothing we will start over The time it takes to, the turnover There are just endings and beginnings