Warning Sign - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Warring factions praise distractions of our youth

Blue light glows and dims their souls from a larger view

Am I pretentious or is this the bitter end?

Can they count to ten?

We're no longer children playing pretend

I’ll fight 'til the river's running clean

And I might seem slightly crazy if I’m swimming upstream

Swear this isn't nonsense from a panic-filled dream

Cause I'm living in what I see

My father told me, "Look up son"

There's only peace with machine guns

See how the violence tries to blind our eyes?

And every two feet is a warning sign

And layers of dust hide my darker side

Why do I have to see the glass half full?

Cause they want me to

The temptation of new sensation haunts us all

The bigger screen, the rounded edge will push me to the wall

The neck strains for high-class things doesn't let us go

The life inside the wires says we're too slow

Cause I think the darker shades are muting out the greens

And I'm making every word count in this pivotal scene

I'm all down for progress in this tech-obsessed dream

But I can’t talk to those that can breathe

My father told me, "Look up son"

There’s only peace with machine guns

See how the violence tries to blind our eyes?

And every two feet is a warning sign

And layers of dust hide my darker side

Why do I have to see the glass half full?

Cause they want me to

Cause I'll fight ’til the river's running clean

And I might seem slightly crazy if I'm swimming upstream

Swear this isn't nonsense from a panic-filled dream

Cause I’m living in what I see