Walked straight for the longest time   Never looked at that exit to the other life   Kept it airtight, lost all sight   Although all I ever had to do was stay blind   As well as stay down   The eyes are open now and I'm screaming towards the ground   Slammed back onstage now where I will mime   Through a broken jaw   But I forgot again, just my imagination   Out of touch with reality again   Where the outer surface never rises   From the nukes   That implode and pass, that implode and pass   Even though eventually they'll throw off the mask,   Reveal the insides and every past   To an empty night when all the flesh had crawled back into the stale light   They've spent their lifelines   On making sure I reach their landmines      IF I HAD A LIFE   I PROBABLY WOULDN'T NOTICE   IF I HAD A MIND   I WOULDN'T LET IT CHOOSE FOR ME      Well the sun's nailed up now   The swarms all loose now   Preparing in full force to climb their ladders up   While their engines drill the skies down   As long as it takes to build that armored skyline   Under which I've dried up   While waiting for the ocean's rise      To sweep it all away somehow   To the carefree glow of the grey sand   Where the blueproof tide unwinds its grasp   To the paper shores' sway of an ion sky   But now the stillframe skips over and back   And all folds away into these cartboard blinds   And then I hear the voices whisper: "Give it up"      I SAID:      Give it up this isn't what you wanted   Now just give it up this isn't what you wanted   Give it up, this isn't want we had in mind      You had your life to live   Now tell me what to do   I've got no life   I won't even choose