[Verse 1]

In the first simulation

Thought becomes form

A cell grows a mind

A heart starts to burn

The pupil shows promise

Kill him again

It's a cold dialectic

May he rise in the end

[Pre-Chorus]

From the guillotine

To the chalk outline

He's always hanging from the same rope

He'd been trying to climb

When you're up on the wire

And you can't commit

And you can't hold the tension

I guess that's it

[Chorus]

You've had a thousand lives

Now you're down to one

Trying to survive

In the shadowverse

Every borderland

Every hungry wolf

Now to make your stand

In the shadowversе

[Verse 2]

Then he's a crusader

With a grail to find

But hе's got no sword

And there's not much time

Then he's a warrior chieftain

A violent man

As she cries on the phone

He does not understand

[Pre-Chorus]

Then he's Achilles

Who takes off his ring

In the New York penthouse

While she's packing her things

Now up on the wire

If you can't commit

And you can't hold the tension

I guess that's it

[Chorus]

You've had a thousand lives

Now you're down to one

Trying to survive

In the shadowverse

Every borderland

Every hungry wolf

Now to make your stand

In the shadowverse

You've had a thousand lives

Now you're down to one

Trying to survive

In the shadowverse

Every borderland

Every hungry wolf

Now to make your stand

In the shadowverse

[Bridge]

Out of time

Out of time and fading

Out of time

Empty hearts waiting

[Chorus]

You've had a thousand lives

Now you're down to one

Trying to survive

In the shadowverse

Every borderland

Every hungry wolf

Now to make your stand

In the shadowverse

You've had a thousand lives

Now you're down to one

Trying to survive

In the shadowverse

Every borderland

Every hungry wolf

Now to make your stand

In the shadowverse

[Instrumental Break]

[Outro]

Out of time

Out of time and fading

Out of time

Empty hearts waiting