Industrial Oblivion

Smiling faces, ticking clocks

What is real and what is not?

System failure on the core

Restarting now all back on

All in line now

It's time again to feed the starving beast

I said no-one breaks the line

Heads down, don't you deviate

So here we are crawling in the dark

Here we stand wounded and unsure

Dazzled, dizzy, and small

Tell me now weren't I the one?

My dearest one dance for me

As I'm winding up your music box

This piercing sound echoing the truth

Like a blade straight into our hearts

So here we are stripping naked

An unravelling tale of who we were

Footprints on the sand of time

Of what we could have become

Mirror mirror on the wall

Tell me who's the fairiest of all

Dusty spotlights of just

Pointing out right from wrong

Orchestrated litany of lies

Pilling up until we choke again

In the midst of controversy

Oh, rain down and wash our bleeding vanities

This industrial agony

We've past the point of no return

My dearest one dance for me

As I'm winding up your music box

This piercing sound echoing the truth

Like a blade straight into our hearts

So here we are stripping naked

An unravelling tale of who we were

Footprints on the sand of time

Of what we could have become