And you do not stop.
You just keep on keeping up.
You always do just what you're told.
And you know that you're not in control.
And you do not stop.
You just keep on keeping that act up.
You just wear the mask that you're sold.
'Cause you know that you've got no control.
And so you hide yourself
way down inside yourself.
You're just as alone as the dreamer sleeping.
Don't want to spend your life building their temples.
Don't want to believe when they tell you that it's simple.
Doing everything you can just to break these chains.
Doing everything you can just to find something.
Think you'll run away,
disobey,
try and change something.
But you stay that way,
stay the same,
can't change nothing.
Still a slave to your own wanting.
'Cause you can't help but believe when they tell you that it's magic.
And you buy the fantasy when they say it's fantastic.
And you eat it up.
And you do not stop.
You're just as alone as the dreamer sleeping.
credits
from Book of Thought,
track released November 20, 2010
Words and music by Josiah Spence
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