Remember when we thought we could burn the world down? And now we can’t even manage a spark We aren’t bored with passion or refused it We just never knew it And we’ve all become compliant Being stale gasoline in gallon drums
We could be virgins or saints but we’re liars And we wouldn’t have it any other way Are lilac fields are wilted And covered in swarms of honey bees And we walk hand in hand through the hives And come out swinging
Putting our trust into mapmakers who’ve never seen the world Their limbs have all been broken Now treading water with their hearts This could be the most meaningful turn of the world And you’d never ever know it Until it came like a tidal wave crashing through your front door
We’ve been screaming at the sky until our throats are raw And all we hear back is silence, not even an echo I swear to God I haven’t felt like myself in so long ‘Cos all that’s left of me is confusion We’re all mad here in this wasteland With our dead cowboys and our dead spacemen
Forever Peter Pan in a business suit Forever Peter Pan when my spine has doubled over Forever Peter Pan on a morphine drip And forever Peter Pan in a casket And all that’s left of a name Is what’s chiseled on your gravestone