sharp black lines cut deep across   the gray rings fat swollen growth    breath less dry hack ashen faced   the sick patient wheezing low   it looks like nothing so much as a cancer   as seen from above, dividing and spreading   the pace is quickening   and I feel the toll it's taking under my hand   round and round   dry hot red drained pock-marked   it keeps going but it's deadly thin   can't quite root out the cause but   you know what the number one suspect is   we look like nothing so much as a cancer   as seen from above, dividing and spreading   the pace is quickening   and I feel the toll it's taking under my hands   round and round