[Verse 1]

Falling from the top floor

Your lungs fill like parachutes

Windows go rushing by

People inside

Dressed for the funeral in black and white

These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet

Found in the cubicle

Without a name, just numbers

On the resume stored in the mainframe, marked for delete

[Chorus]

Please take these hands

Throw them in the river

Wash away the sins they never held

Please take these hands

Throw me in the river

Don't let me drown before the workday ends

[Post-Chorus]

Nine to five

Nine to five

[Verse 2]

And we're up to our necks

Drowning in the seconds

Ingesting the morning commute

Lost in a dead subway sleep

We lie wide awake in our parents' beds

Tossing and turning, tomorrow we'll get up

Drive to work, single file

With every day, it's like the last

Waiting for the life to start

Is it always just ahead of the curve?

[Chorus]

Please take these hands

Throw them in the river

Wash away the sins they never held

Please take these hands

Throw me in the river

Don't let me drown before the workday ends

[Post-Chorus 2]

Just keep making copies of copies of copies

When will it end?

[Verse 3]

It'll never end

'Til it gets so bad

That the ink fills in our fingerprints

And the silhouette of your own face becomes the black cloud of war

And even in our dreams we're so afraid the weight will offset who we are

All those breaths that you took have now been canceled in your lungs

Last night my teeth fell out like ivory typewriter keys

And all the monuments and skyscrapers burned down and filled the sea

[Bridge]

Save our ship

The anchor is part of the desk

We can't cut free

Water is flooding the decks

The memo's sent through the currents

Computers spark like flares

I can see them

They don't touch me, touch me

[Outro]

Please someone

Teach me how to swim

Please, don't let me drown

Please, don't let me drown