When the Satellites Fall

[Verse 1: Patience]

You got a monkey on your back, not on some Michael Jackson

You saw yourself as rather bad since you were cytoplasm

You saw a bike when you were five and thought “I'd like to have it”

So you just snatched it, didn't you? That's your rite of passage

But that was wrong and you knew it so you felt like a bad-ass

Then the guilt just ate you up, already quite the Catholic

It's twice as tragic, 'cause you're good and you don't like the havoc

But you can't help it and relish it, call it type sporatic

There's tragedy in your trajectory, you've dodged some bullets

They'd pull the wool and you'd push it and often call their bullshit

You gave history a hysterectomy then crawled into it

Had something but misdirected it with all the movement

And now, you're autopilot, blind and fossil-fueled or carbon-neutral

Vomit tossed and spewin' as you carve a blueprint

Onto two-inch tape with razor, you're a sovereign unit

I just roll my eyes and laugh because I always knew it

[Chorus: Bender]

When the satellites fall

Who'll be standin' up above when the whole world grinds to a halt?

When it breaks apart, when the satellites fall

Who'll be laughin' up above when this black hole swallows us all, swallows us all, swallows us all?

[Verse 2: Bender]

You got a sharkbite on your abdomen, that's self-inflicted

All ya' idols live in hell, you rubbin' elbows with 'em

You got a Hellenistic vision of the hell you live in

Is this real or television, you can't tell the difference

Wishin' on the middle finger of the monkey paw

You want some diamond rings to shimmer on that rusted claw

That's not a monarch that's inside you, that's a fucking moth

That moth is wearing death's head, he'll eat your stomach raw

You see some kind of revolution that you masterminded

With plans to televise and sell off time for advertisements

You treat delusions like your children in the way they're nurtured

If you had children you would set them loose to rape and murder

Playin' chicken with the angel of ya' self-destruction

You felt this comin' since they snipped you off the belly button

I guess the joke's on you it's looking like you raised a phoenix

I guess the joke's on me too, there ain't no space between us

[Chorus: Bender]

When the satellites fall

Who'll be standin' up above when the whole world grinds to a halt?

When it breaks apart, when the satellites fall

Who'll be laughin' up above when this black hole swallows us all, swallows us all, swallows us all?

[Verse 3: Escrol]

Yeah, yeah, get out

Yo, you got a needle and you're genius like you're Charlie Parker

You think you need it but it treats you like a sparring partner

Who eat their children whole and call themself a starving artist?

It's hedonistic how you feasting off that heart of darkness

You treaded gently but you front like you was waterboarded

They call it torture but you longing to be drawn and quartered

They got you cornered so you warn 'em you in different classes

You lit a match but then you passed it off as splittin' atoms

A minute passed and now you waitin' on that final hour

It's been established that you captain of this ivory tower

You sit in static while you wonder why you're uninspired

While you pickin' shrapnel out your paper cuts with rusted pliers

You got a chauvinistic vision of the solar system

Is this real or motion pictures, like you know the difference?

That broken English can't describe it when the sky is fallin'

All that you could hope for's to die with honour, so sayonara

[Chorus: Bender]

When the satellites fall

Who'll be standin' up above when the whole world grinds to a halt?

When it breaks apart, when the satellites fall

Who'll be laughin' up above when this black hole swallows us all, swallows us all, swallows us all?

[Outro: Bender]

Swallows us all, swallows us all

Whatever you do, don't look up

Swallows us all, swallows us all