[Verse 1]

I see the turquoise lake spread out flat between the desert hills

I feel the sun penetrate my skin

I feel it melt the marrow in my bones

I hear the engines grinding, relentless

Crushing stone

Crushing stone

Giant steel insect arms rise up in clouds of rust

Then they pivot and they groan

As they violate and they thrust

Down we ride into the pit

First we’re swallowed, then we’re folded into it

Inside our gouged mouth

New home is a liquid that is velvet, black and slick

It slides down our throats and it fills up our lungs

Feeding young minds with thickened oil and blackened scum

Clawing blind, pounding rock

Killing light with grit and grime

Breaking hands, marking time, sucking dust, oh, sucking dust

Sweating copper tears that are sent up in buckets to the crust

But way, way, way up high

There’s a square hole that opens out to the sky

Exhaling hollow thoughts that like sparrows now fly

Scattering tiny shadows over continents of pale and hardened mud

Following a clear and singing thread that leads us backwards

To a home that never really was

[Pre-Chorus]

Deep in the guts of the Earth

We work, we work

Deep in the heart of the hurt

We work, we work

Shoveling red powder and dirt

We work, we work

Digging a hole that leads to our birth

We work, we work

[Chorus]

We were, we were

We were, we were

We are, we were

We are, we were

[Verse 2]

Because my eyes are made of glass

I drink the sand to sift the past

The shifting tides have come to rest

In shallow pools inside my chest

I am the man who drags his chains

Along the road that navigates

The shit, the slop, the butter and fat

My map is carved into my back

Reality is blazing bright

Beneath the sky all creatures rise

With arms entwined

The living, the dead

In matter, in mind

Simultaneous

I praised your lips

I praised your skin

Our future stopped where time begins

[Pre-Chorus]

I remember

We were, we were

Gone forever

But we were, we were

But remember

We were, we were

Gone forever

But we were, we were

[Chorus]

We were, we were

We were, we were

We are, we were

We are, we were