Break it or leave it   Shake it or shove it   What does it matter now?   The damage, my friend, has been done   Has been done   Witness the broken bough      The talk on the airwaves    Is showing its teeth   They talk about the bomb   But fret not, fret not   And don't bat an eye   I'll tell you what went wrong      I spent a long time   In the pipeline   I did my time in school   I did the math   And I made my very own estimate   With the golden rule      How to proceed   With no sense of entitlement   Go where the sun don't shine   There's never any shortage   Of people in this world   Driving me out of my mind      Meridian, meridian   Lay down the line   Help us get there   And back on time   Show us the road   And we'll meet you on the other side   Time waits for no man   So we must say goodbye      Sometimes it's hard to see here   By the light of day   Something easy on the eyes   You think you're fooling everyone   But you are just the number one   Believer of your own pack of lies      Every time some new kind    Of shit goes down   It looks like more    And more of the same   Funny how the guilt is too much to bear   Even when we feel no shame      Meridian, meridian   Lay down the line   Help us get there    And back on time   Show us the road   And we'll meet you on the other side   Time waits for no man   We must say goodbye      To the line in the sand   That crept like a spider to bite us   Goodbye   To the knife in the hand   Of the sworn enemy who's inside us   Goodbye   To the sound of our names   On a tongue that would try to alight us   Goodbye   To the faces we wore   To identify or to hide us