You breathe with an apparatus strapped around your chest
And it tells you when to wake and go to sleep
You see through tunnel vision lenses on your open eyes
so you only see what you want to see
It blacks out every burden at every turn
and it makes life happy and grey
and that smile's here to stay
Stop lighting all the fuses that find their way back to you
(Think for yourself)
Stop yearning for the past when it wants nothing to do with you
(Think for yourself)
And you don’t know how to be
if the carpet isn’t laid out to show the way
(you tow the line
never saying anything)
so start asking better questions
like why are we so easily led astray?
and how do we break away?
And I don’t wanna regress to a sick sad state
Back when I used to insist on hating everything
The urge and need to belong
is your own imagination’s funeral
Remove the wool from over your eyes
credits
released July 19, 2019
Produced/Engineered/Mastered by Nik Bruzzese
Engineered by Dom Maggi
Recorded at The Lumberyard in Hammonton NJ
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