The Future We've Made

In the future we've made nobody gets caught

Jumping over turnstiles

Busting off the locks

Never hears an answer

To the signals and calls

Forever races backwards

Like paintings on the cave walls

It's hard enough to manage

The blind truth from this vantage point

With nothing to distract us

From those ugly empty choices

I remember seeing my smile reflected on the water

All the hope then didn't matter

It just kept getting hotter

What I'd give to slide down the dunes

What I'd give to be taken in the view

All I need is a lie to cling on to

That someday I'm gonna live on the wind like you

Minutes pass through burning matches

The deadlines that you miss don't matter

Nobody knows their position

No feeding frenzy, no competition

Each trickle now can feed a city

The sunsets lately keep getting prettier

No one's got use for money

When the paint drips off the houses like honey

I remember every bloody holiday, each early grave

The only thing that never gets lost are the faces that you cannot shake

What i'd give to slide down the dunes

What I'd give to be taken in the view

All I need is a lie to cling on to

That someday I'm gonna live on the wind like you

The moments that I can't remember were never really mine

Trying to undo this

Slow, beautiful crime