Routine where there’s no distraction

Between the unwholesome and unwhole

Emotions of the everyday machine

Fatal feelings are piling upon the fight just to hang on

Then something new will intervene:

Neurotransmission of molecules

Reaching receptors to stimulate

Crucial conversion to simple fuels

Doldrums abate

Every day the same thing

Every day, every day the same thing

Every day, every day, every day the same thing

Ride my peptide-turning ebb and flow

Every day the same thing

Every day, every day the same thing

Every day, every day, every day the same thing

Streams of daydreams drag me down and grow

Routine where there’s no distraction

Between the unwholesome and unwhole

Emotions of the everyday machine

Fatal feelings are piling upon the fight just to hang on

Then something new will intervene:

Neurotransmission of molecules

Reaching receptors to stimulate

Crucial conversion to simple fuels

Doldrums abate

Climb

Reaching hand over handle

And I’m not sure I’m gonna face my fears in time

And I know the pinnacle of panic’ll be clinical

Mechanical, and grow and grow, till I’m buried far below

So I heed the asylum’s call

Going anywhere my medicine takes me

And I like the new way it makes me

So I barely despair at all when I fall

From burial and plummeting

The aerial I’m summiting gets tall and wide

And I set my fears aside

If it weren’t for adversity

I’d have known I’d never see myself denied

Now I’m feeling my old fatigue

As the uniform boredom rises

With the great escape it devises

And my strategies, deep down, are in league

Meds

I’ve been hiding them under the beds

My mind reverses

I’m done with the doctors and nurses

Oh, I don’t need ‘em; I’ve got freedom

I’m ready for a ride

I can see my reflection, and it’s gonna be my guide

Yeah, the winds are shifting, lifting me higher and higher now

I’m riding the rising fire. Now I’m off, I’m on my way

Watch me fly, you can bet I’ll be getting by day to day

Though I know what’s coming, dumbing me down to a medium

I try to defy the tedium

There’s no chance I’ll ever get out of the trance

Why do I try? Life never amounts to anything that counts

And so on I bounce, at a plateau I’d rather renounce

There’s nowhere left to go

I will seek excitement until I fulfill every need

I’ll succeed, then I’ll live the life that I’ve always known I can own

There’s no way in, there’s no time. No way to win

I know I’m no more than a laugh

A joke to the old ha-ha-hospital staff

I knew that I’d fold

So I’ll tuck my tail as I go. I’ll pre-derail

Now I know I’ll fail

I’m feeling victimized, I’m feeling vile

But a little thieving might leave me believing I’m worthwhile Breaking and entering is my domain

Seems a little stealing might just keep me feeling sane

I’m sinking deeper than I did before

Something isn’t working

Burglary and lurking are a bore

I’m sick of living in the grit and grime, molded by the mildew

That is why I will do more crime

What’s the use?

Being built on each excuse turns my guilt on

Thoughts begin their full attack

I give in, I’m going back

So I heed the asylum’s call

Going anywhere my medicine takes me

And I like the new way it makes me

So I barely despair at all when I fall

But now I’m feeling my old fatigue

As the uniform boredom rises

With the great escape it devises

And my strategies, deep down, are in league

I’m ready for a ride

I can see my reflection, and it’s gonna be my guide

Yeah, the winds are shifting, lifting me higher and higher now

I’m riding the rising fire. Now I’m off, I’m on my way

Watch me fly, you can bet I’ll be getting by day to day

Though I know what’s coming, dumbing me down to a medium

I try to defy the tedium

Routine where there’s no distraction

Between the unwholesome and unwhole

Emotions of the everyday machine

Fatal feelings are piling upon the fight just to hang on