Beast in the cage as you play your age
Old dog no tricks and no play
Put away for a rainy day
Down payment on a living wage
Oh shit I misspoke
The mirrors and smoke provoked
It’s no joke working hard
But beasts won’t get that far
Scapegoat tied to a dying star
Laugh to yourself
Like living that hell
Watching that clock like tick, tick, tick
Living that cynic lifestyle
Cut throat tongue fire ballistic
Oh fuck how I miss it
Wool over eyes complicit
On worst enemy, wouldn’t wish it
But kinda used now to the limits
Been told just not focused
But met so many just coping
Getting through or broken
Masked behind just joking
Living the dream slogan
While on their words, choking
We’re we maybe hoping
For something breaking this motion

Take us back to our paradise
So nice, I’ll live/leave it twice
Love the reasonable asking price
To satisfy my mind of peace
Bring me down, to my knees
Paradise, there’s no release
Ah, no release

Remember the golden age we lived?
Engorged and swollen in stiff outfits
Rigorous proof to see if we fit?
If we commit can never lose it
Thought on even footing we’re pit
Ever look down, why the floor so slick?
Skin and bone, not mortar and brick
I know you hate talking politics
Lost a job, many lost three
Please, take it back to our routine
So carefree, see how the head
will happily be an amputee
*We thank lucky stars simply alive
Looking at each other a little cockeyed
We scuttled back inside
All that security compromised
Now you see, along for the ride
Outside paradise given to the rat tide
These fuckers can’t get enough
What does that say about us?

Take us back to our paradise
So nice, I’ll live/leave it twice
Love the reasonable asking price
To satisfy my mind of peace
Bring me down, to my knees
Paradise, there’s no release
Ah, no release