They tell me what's cool
They tell me what's not
Go back to school
Or go where it's hot

Take one little pill to make you feel sane
Save up your money to pay for a game
This one thinks that and that one thinks this
All in the time it takes me to ****

The women will love me if I drink *****
They tell me these things and I get confused
If I buy a new car, then I will succeed
It's all about wants, who cares what we need

More people on Earth than ever before
I sleep on my bed, but wake up on the floor
A new phone comes out, throw my old one away
I don't think that I can keep living this way

Where will it end, Where will it stop
We're born to live but we live to shop

They tell me whats cool, they tell me what's not
I thought that I knew but I guess I forgot
I thought that I know but I guess I forgot

The truth is clouded from our vision
In a plan to steal our minds
They want us to be fat and happy
So we don't care whats going on

They fill our heads with empty knowledge
So they don't lose what once was ours
We gave them power for a moment
And they took all that they could rob

We sit in a half drunk stupor
And watch whatever **** comes on
While they walk in the front door boldly
We don't know that our stuff is gone

So what, you say you're fat and happy
And now I've talked for way too long
But you will see in the near future
That what I say is far from wrong.

Cheap thrills are driving me insane
Don't know whether it's spit or rain
The time has come for me to shout it
Free bread and circuses mask pain.

The moons so bright tonight
I wonder where I'll go
I walk the streets of town
But I walk them alone

I fight the cold off
With a bottle and a prayer
No clue where I'm going
Or if i'll make it there.

The silence of the empty town
Echoes in my mind
The snowflakes frozen in midair
For the rest of time

I find an empty alleyway
And then I settle in
I go to sleep so freezing cold
And don't wake up again

They find me in the morning light
Covered up with snow
No job, no home, no family
I had no place to go.

A vague feeling of longing, of knowing there is more but not knowing where or when to find it. Or more devastating, that it has passed you by when you were not paying attention.

There's no peace in understanding
It just causes pain
The mind is full to bursting
Little left remains
And when the bottles empty
The night so cold and long
no more walls to hide behind
everything's gone wrong
There's only one more choice to make
the options stark and cold
To rot in jail, or end it all
More knowledge for the soul.

The gaslights on and the bills are due. Leftover rice for dinner again. School in the morning. Dead-end job with too few hours in the evening. Drunk at night. Drunk at night. Awkward encounters with women I  don't know. But good too. Lot's of laughs. Deep wine fueled discussions into the early morning. Music,Music,Music. Fall extravaganza, Jackson Pollack on the mountainsides. Things change. Snow and cold and wind and ice. Hide by my fire. Wait for Spring. Wait for Spring.

Downtown streets are full to bursting
shopping, buying, hungry, thirsting.
Dressed to show off wealth and class
But its a Sunday during mass.

The world's been changing,slowly turning
The torch of "Progress" steady burning
The constant hum of what shall come
beats the manic wartime drum

Have I changed or was it them
Mankind no longer man's best friend
Swindle, cheat, or steal for more
The hungry masses, silent, roar.

Is it too late to turn the tide
The moon still tears across the sky
Will we find a higher ground?
Where all can stand, where all are found.