THE MIRROR TRAP - SIMULATIONS
TRACK BY TRACK LYRICS
UNDER THE GLASS TOWERS
Cash for gold? I'd sell my fucking bones to get through one more week,
to prove that I'm still half way human.
Where do we go when there's nothing left?
How do you know when there's nothing left?
Come all you wrecking balls, you masters of the world,
What are you waiting for, just roll me over, roll me over again.
Throw me down and roll me over.
I've been working for the last two hundred years,
in fifty more I can afford to live like you.
Where do we go when there's nothing left?
How do you know when there's nothing left?
Come all you wrecking balls, you masters of the world,
What are you waiting for, just roll me over, roll me over again.
Throw me down and roll me over.
We're the ants in the magnifying glass,
We're the ants in the magnifying glass,
We're the ants in the magnifying glass and we're all on fucking fire...
Come all you wrecking balls, you masters of the world,
What are you waiting for, just roll me over, roll me over again.
What are you, what are you waiting for?
NEW TRANCE
Im starting on a new life, an arms length from my face,
In HD hyper-vision, twenty four hours a day.
I'll join the conversation, but I don't have anything left to say.
Always an alibi, always a reason why I'll never leave
Always an alibi, always a reason why I'll never leave
My eyes have turned to glass, I don't know when I last blinked,
All out of new sensations, we'll do it all again,
I am bewitched, I'm spellbound, my new Medusa won't let me escape
Always an alibi, always a reason why I'll never leave
Always an alibi, always a reason why I'll never leave
Always the reason why, always the reason why.
NO I.D.
These years of walking around in someone else's skin, are doing me in.
These years of lying have me believing everything, I've ever said.
Choose a life, choose a life.
I wonder where I start and where we're crossing over,
remember, remember, it's nothing personal.
Dry clean my only suit, dye my hair a lighter shade, staple my face.
I've learned the phrases, I need to get me through the day, I'll throw them away.
Choose a life, choose a life.
I wonder where I start and where we're crossing over,
remember, remember, it's nothing personal.
Taking my face off, been wearing it all the time,
I don't even know who I am.
I wonder where I start and where we're crossing over,
remember, remember, it's nothing personal.
I wonder where I start and where we're crossing over,
remember, remember, it's nothing personal.
SOMETHING ABOUT FOREVER
I try to justify giving up on life and living like a leper, its easy if you try
and in the bluest light, I get lost in time, I'm gonna live forever, I told you that,
I told you its alright.
I'm waiting up all night for a little simulation,
its a modern way of life, for the taking
My digital desires give me all I've ever wanted,
I'm the lonely superstar of my bedroom.
I try to justify giving up on life and living like a leper, its easy if you try
and in the bluest light, I get lost in time, I'm gonna live forever, I told you that,
I told you its alright.
I want life without the hits, I want friends without rejection
I want sex and viral clips with no affection.
When you touch me I get sick, overwhelmed and disappointed,
I prefer a double click, every time.
In the glow of your screen, I'm reborn I live again,
now I'm weightless, free of flaws, I can be anything I want.
I try to justify giving up on life and living like a leper, its easy if you try
and in the bluest light, I get lost in time, I'm gonna live forever, I told you that,
I told you its alright.
Its alright, its alright, its alright.
PIRANHAS
We're up to our eyeballs, in half a million problems
Piranhas come calling and tear the flesh right off us.
I woke up this morning, with three bears in my porridge,
with no good news in paper, no let up in the weather.
I live for the weekend, a bowl to put my keys in,
I hide my desires, so you wont kick me out the gang.
How can you see with the sun in your eyes?
How do you know when you're feeling low?
It takes you over, it takes you on.
One stop, ten years, I was young when I first got here, now Im sick, I can't breath.
I love her, I hate her, I couldn't live without her,
I think I might kill her so no one else can have her.
I would turn to drink but I just don't have the stomach,
I'm F.Scott Fitzgerald without the money or the wife.
How can you see with the sun in your eyes?
How do you know when you're feeling low?
It takes you over, it takes you on.
One stop, ten years, I was young when I first got here, now Im sick, I can't breath,
and all I see is a brick wall, just another mother-fucking brick wall,
its all there, its all there, and its never going to go.
JOYRIDE
You led me off with a shaking hand, and gave me the keys to a house you'd built on sand.
I'll be here, I was here.
We come to life in the street light glare, you're shadow handsome, I can't help but stare.
I'll be here, I was here.
We drank so much that we couldn't stand, so we fucked where we fell and we called it modern romance.
I'll be here, I was here, all along.
Ignore the sun, ignore the moon, come on the joyride.
Tell me I'm wrong, bite on my tongue, just come with me.
You dye your hair and you sleep with a gun, if this is dreaming someone wake me up.
I'll be here, I was here.
I want to stand as a pillar of strength, but my knees are weak and I can't take the weight.
I'll be here, I was here, all along.
Ignore the sun, ignore the moon, come on the joyride.
Tell me I'm wrong, bite on my tongue, just come with me.
Ignore the sun, ignore the moon, come on the joyride.
Tell me I'm wrong, bite on my tongue, just come with me.
Just come with me, just come, just come, just come.
I'll be here, I was here, all along.
I'll be here, I was here, all along.
I'll be here, I was here, all along.
You're just a roman candle,
like fire in the night,
embarrassing the stars,
putting shame in the sunlight,
Forever and deadly, and bad for the eyes,
staring straight ahead I am ecstatically going blind,
you're perfect
you're perfect and your mine,
you're perfect
there's nobody left alive
there's nobody left alive....
You tattoo coins to the lids of your eyes,
you say it will help you to get to the other side.
SECOND LIFE
I get the feeling that something is not quite right, he was a real mother-fucker but now you call him Christ.
Isn't he wonderful.
I remember him back when he was wild, he had the face of a man but dressed up like a child.
Isn't he wonderful.
What are you like? Show me the bad times, I want all you're giving out.
Tell a lie, tell me it twice,
paint me a portrait of ideal life.
Do you wonder where it all went right?
You start yourself off on a second life, you know you messed it up once you've got to make it right,
to make it wonderful.
You see the world through a filtered eye, there was a warm pink glow around your bed last night,
and it was wonderful.
What are you like? Show me the bad times, I want all you're giving out.
Tell a lie, tell me it twice,
paint me a portrait of ideal life.
Do you wonder where it all went right?
You get all you wanted,
when all that you wanted,
was something for nothing,
so you can talk about it.
Tell a lie, tell me it twice,
paint me a portrait of ideal life.
Do you wonder where it all went right?
MUSCLE MEMORY
Lately I've been feeling electronic, waking up and never asking why,
maybe we can down a gin and tonic, and talk about the things that keep us alive.
I've been lying to myself, I lie a million times a day.
I wake up inside a conversation, someones talking but its not to me,
"would you like to make yourself a fortune", I just shrug and look the other way.
I've been lying to myself, I lie a million times a day.
I think I'm falling, under the weather, lately I can't seem to keep it together,
I think I'm falling, under the weather, lately I can't seem to keep it together.
We die in the suburbs, under the floorboards,
up in the high-rise, watch time fly.
We die in the suburbs, under the floorboards,
up in the high-rise, watch time fly.
There's a feeling sitting in my stomach, the seed of something I might never find,
maybe when you get me six feet under, you might see me in a different light.
I've been lying to myself, I lie a million times a day.
I think I'm falling, under the weather, lately I can't seem to keep it together,
I think I'm falling, under the weather, lately I can't seem to keep it together.
We die in the suburbs, under the floorboards,
up in the high-rise, watch time fly.
We die in the suburbs, under the floorboards,
up in the high-rise, watch time fly.
I've been lying to myself, I lie......
We get sick inside a population, we live together but we don't connect,
I get scared of losing all emotion but every day I'm feeling less and less.
ELIXIR
He saves his paperwork for his one day off,
and wont do holidays, says he'd rather work.
He'll be in charge of you when he's twenty nine,
he hates the ladder but he loves the climb.
He loves the climb, he loves the climb.
Hold tight, just got to bide your time,
I'm not sure you know what you are.
You live like your never going to die,
I'm not sure you know what you are.
He gets himself online where he finds a wife,
and does her to conceive then turns out the lights.
And when he's sixty-five he'll head for the sun,
and think of all the things that he should have done.
He should have done, he should have done.
Hold tight, just got to bide your time,
I'm not sure you know what you are.
You live like your never going to die,
I'm not sure you know what you are.
BLEACH YOUR BONES
I'm the carrier of a broken gene, I'm the son and I'm the father,
I'll go right down.
There's an open door and I'm walking through, I can see the fire rising,
I'll go right down.
Out on the window ledge, I'm doing semaphore,
to tell the world what I've done wrong.
My blue eyes turning grey, my blood is gasoline,
there's plastic leaking from my pores.
Been having world war dreams, I'm dying in my sleep,
I'll walk with match-sticks in my eyes
I'm the carrier of a broken gene, I'm the son and I'm the father,
I'll go right down.
There's an open door and I'm walking through, I can see the fire rising,
I'll go right down.
The billboard and the screen, spit black dirt over me,
and sell me ways to clean it off.
Been having world war dreams, I'm scared of everything,
I'll light the matchsticks in my eyes.
In the torture garden, this is love
By the murder orchids, getting off
I'm the carrier of a broken gene, I'm the son and I'm the father,
I'll go right down.
There's an open door and I'm walking through, I can see the fire rising,
I'll go right down.
It's eternal war, it's eternal war, and the city streets are burning,
in the empty shells of the super-cars street children skin the millionaires,
skin the millionaires, skin the millionaires,
And in their blood they'll write the words,
"We're all in this together, we're all in this together"
"We're just so much better together"
