It's heavy like a storm cloud overhead

It's warm now, but it has to be said

Every winter's feeling colder than last

Could pretend to float over the past

Summer's on blast

And the damage ain't obvious as a cast

Mental, drink to healthful plentiful ways

Strange dazed in the longest day of the year

Only time I'm full of cheer, is sincere

Is when the solstice is here

And the bad omens of the globe eroding

And my social and personal capital groaning

Can be capped & left on its lonesome

Off to chase blue skies

With a pocket full of potent nothing

Put an end to discussion

On anything approaching substance

I'm just tryna survive

I'll make what the machine is wanting

I'm eating time

I'll buy what the machine is selling

I'm eating life

Expectancy is seen as messy

That's Eton, right

Aye, write on the edge of a knife

Peddle desolate into the darkness

To seek a wage

Ask your local locksmith about race

Rats pace in the kitchen

We evade superstition

Like new recruits evade fatal missions

In a world that preys on your addictions

Stomps your ambition

Laughs at your afflictions

And then asks you why you're distant

They'll talk a power of your drinking

Never of your drought

You've got no pot to piss in

But you're getting offered snout like

Aye, I'll take it, light it up & inhale it

I'll screw up my, let's face it

This world wisnae built for the sake of it

Gotta take it how it is

And stake your claim to it

I just pray my family & friends are safe in it

‘cause I’ll make what the machine is wanting

I'm eating time

I'll buy what the machine is selling

I'm eating life

Expectancy is seen as messy

That's Eton, right

Aye, write on the edge of a knife

The closer you're standing to the fire

Brighter eyes trained on flames

The truth is not what you desire

When blood runs warm

Through your veins

Crooks will demand a liar

Tell stories glorifying the pain

Of those in the darkness

But our knives are sharpened

And we're dancing for rain

It's about balance?

Do you say that in malice?

I'm convinced that

Life is less of a challenge

The higher up the pedal stool

You're standing