[Intro]

Awake, unfazed

Morning light tells of the dawning day

Just like any other day

Brush off sleep's touch

Clear midnight's haze

There's nothing extraordinary here

A flaccid world, unfit, unclear

Desperate for something more

Something more than getting by

Empty faces on the sidewalk

Listless and limping to a lie

Of a bright and pleasant future

Of a blue and cloudless sky

A phantom whisper sounds deceiving

It brings in the question "why?"

We work until we are unable

Then locked away until we die

[Verse 1]

But then it happened

Everything changed in but an instant

A violent burst of brilliant colour

Somehow close and somehow distant

From a whisper

To a scream

To a hoarse, distorted laugh

There is no hope of restitution

There is no ever going back

[Verse 2]

In dreamless sleep

One ponders death

Hold back the fleeting final breath

Knuckle white, slipping grip

Jaw clenched tight, and quivering lip

This cannot happen

This cannot be

Escape a life of anonymity

To be a drop into the sea

[Chorus]

A drop into the sea

Whose ripple turns to tidal wave

That sweeps the shores it once forgave

But crashing down upon the shore

The sea is silent evermore

[Refrain]

Awake, unfazed

Morning light tells of the dawning day

Just like any other day

Brush off sleep's touch

Clear midnight's haze

There's nothing extraordinary here

A flaccid world, unfit, unclear

Desperate for something more

Something more than getting by

There's got to be something more than this

It sounds so deceiving

Begging the question "why?"

Begging the question "why?"

Why do we work until we are unable?

Why do we work until we die?

Why do we work until we are unable?

Why, why, why do we work?

Why do we work until we die?

[Chorus]

A drop into the sea

Whose ripple turns to tidal wave

That sweeps the shores it once forgave

The sun, the moon, the Earth

Conversed and agreed

The people of the world must pay for its atrophy

But crashing down upon the shore

The sea is silent evermore, evermore

[Bridge]

But then it happened

Everything changed in but an instant

A violent burst of brilliant colour

Somehow close and somehow distant

Somehow close and somehow distant

Somehow close and somehow distant

Somehow close and somehow distant

The sun, the moon, the Earth

Conversed and agreed

The people of the world must pay for its atrophy

[Outro]

What unknown face now breaks the silence?

What tipping force disturbs the balance?

Swift and sober comes a voice

Offering a bitter choice