[Chorus]

See the life that I was sold, wasn't advertised

And deep within our souls, we're traumatised

Like I'm standing in control, of a loaded die

And I hope we get to see, this paradise

You see the life that I was sold, wasn't advertised

And, once you see the flaws, they're hard to hide

An illusion of control, we tried to buy

You see the life that I was sold...

[Verse One]

You see this TV's telling me

That I need pedigree

Purchase it for discount

The screen prescribes a remedy

Input from memory

Numbers are engraved on me

Digits to distinguish and dividе us, split

We sit cracked and broke wе quit

We paid for life decisions, but that pay don't fit

But wait, there's a hope

So relax, let's pray

I've heard there's a place

Let's go, be brave

I played for the distance, sink with that

Conscious weaves and I'm back in the flat

Stirred from a scene with a rat-tat-tat

So I clawed to return but I can't get back

Well, they stay in to win

When they soar they fly wing to wing

Nobody wants to be falling so they swim

That's why I know when I smoke, that air is thin

And that chronic

Like a tonic

What I feel

And dulling what I feel has such mass appeal

So I'll lie in these fields

Come alive in these fields

I might die in these fields

[Verse Two]

Signal dropped out for a while

When it came back... no smile

Turned upside down by the way that I know that I am

No child

Grown-up so long now that I wonder how and I wonder why

That I didn't give up, didn't even try

Because I took real life like a set design

And I hear them thunderclaps

At the end of a baseball bat

And I tried to deflect or react

But when those debt-collectors collect

They come for your soul

So, listen

'Cos you bought into the system

No cash-out, no, no resistance

Because it magnifies off the prism

And I know when it feels like tax

Because I know how it feels to be trapped when you feel like you are lost and you can't get back

Because I've been weighed down

So low

So long

Doesn't really matter if you're grown no-no

That's why I feel so cold-shouldered, so

We aim to breathe out by the sea

But in truth we need smoke to breathe

Never want to be the devil

Levels are enabled

Betting off the table

Truth is in the fable

Bigger baddies can be bodied end of levels

All we really need to do is let it go

I tried to hold this but never tried to show it

Now I choose to evolve

Down the river, down the road

With no rudder, no control

[Chorus]

See the life that I was sold, wasn't advertised

And deep within our souls, we're traumatised

Like I'm standing in control, of a loaded die

And I hope we get to see, this paradise

You see the life that I was sold, wasn't advertised

And, once you see the flaws, they're hard to hide

An illusion of control, we tried to buy

You see the life that I was sold...

[Verse Three]

The stake, the balance

The snakes, the ladders

The stick, the carrot

The kind, the callous

Divide the adders

The scrapes, the scratches

The cuts, the bruises

The cash, the credit

The paper, plastic

The fake, the classic

The lake, the rapids

The vacant, vapid

The patient, placid

This beauty, beast

This trick or treat

Is this real life?

Or repeats

Is this real life?

Or repeats...