Kill the Switch

Lyrics

Mouth the words to deny, deny the symptoms As in, "Oh yeah, I'm doing fine" As I've found a most endearing psychosis Somewhere out there, there's a thrill, I swear Desperate as I am, I just can't strip bare and bleed The only purity I've known But I lay with reason Found logic conceived in a walk with skin I sleep with reason, producing these monsters Under painted catcalls as in temptation Yeah, there's a key to be in But there's no shade, no shade to blame Waterfalls in a cool gray And the struggle is colored gray this day The caw of crows fills up the picture plane This is your picture plane in central neutral gray Absinthe to slight the pain This world's this worst-case color scheme Streaks of oil stain Stained the road he crawled on homeward Oh yeah, oh yeah, he killed the switch, with some unwieldy gauge Absence and light remains I lay with reason, so logic, and reap in a walk with sin El sueño razon produce monstruos [Instrumental Break] When does this dream end? Now I've missed another whole season I've missed the fall; clearly, it's fallen On this land, as fields once green are ochre now This is no dream, trees have turned to skeleton This is no dream, roots teased and knotted Just below the surface skin of ground Stitched between the Earth and the sky Struggling to hold it down Sometimes to realize, you've gotta lose track, lose track of sight Blurring my vision makes it clear the tiny moving parts make up the whole The image is clear, a tower is built of my own pride I cry in the shade that it offers, the only shelter I've known When does this dream end? When does this dream end? This is no dream, this is the walking, living, breathing caricature of a memory Shamelessly, I cave in to temptation of creation But still, my only thrill is empty sidewalks, silent streets The caw of crows fills up the picture plane Our picture plane is veiled in central neutral gray Absinthe to slight the pain This world's this worst-case color scheme Streaks of oil stain Stained the road he crawled on homeward Oh yeah, oh yeah, he killed the switch, with some unwieldy gauge Absence and light remains Life is lowly anonymity In death, a noble pose, a Marat David Tell me, who wouldn't give their lives For such a soapbox to die behind Life is lowly, lowly anonymity In the space of a smile, I found sleep As in sorrow, so shall ye reap Reap the promised end to the struggle Reap every point on our linear path Reap the smiles in time we borrow Every harvest relies on the last Reap the promising song of the sparrow That they learned from the birth of the sea Silenced by the threnody of the crows Reap the fallen fruit of the dogwood tree But I witnessed in all this silence, one soul's definition of beauty And a backlit smile so temporary, facade so rich with evil history Cast in direct opposition, set to overwhelm his moment to shine and sleep Came out on top of what was borrowed, and found all that beauty to be still Every breath as in sorrow Reap the promised end to this path By every image that we borrow Every harvest depends on the past Subdivide in factions, our linear forever We subdivide our waking hours to sleep While guilty eyes turn toward a porch light Enlightenment is losing sight Somewhere out there, there's a thrill, I swear In this low-light town, when my shift begins, the streets reflecting Yellow, yellow, yellow, in the vacancy that overwhelms Red, red, red, your vehicle, the color of expansion Open up (Open up), open up The latter just a thought to thrill me Knock, knock, knock (Knock, knock, knock), knock, knock, knock The latter just a thought to thrill me Red is a four-letter word, four-letter invitation Now my head is locked in the direction of the Sun In the direction of the Sun In the direction of the Sun Now my head is locked in the direction of the Sun In the direction of the Sun Life is lowly anonymity In death, a noble pose, a Marat David Tell me who wouldn't give their lives For such a soapbox to leave behind I know it's all been done before I want to do it again I know it's all been done before Life is lowly anonymity In death, a noble pose, a Marat David Life is lowly, lowly anonymity In the space of a smile, I found sleep I know it's all been done before I want to do it again, I want to do it again I know it's all been done before I want to do it again, I want to do it again I know it's all been done before I want to do it again, I want to do it again Life is lowly anonymity In death, a noble pose, a Marat David Life is lowly, lowly anonymity Life is lowly, lowly anonymity Life is lowly, lowly anonymity Life is lowly, lowly anonymity In stillness, absence, sorrow In silence, I pick sorrow In stillness, absence, sorrow This night our journey's through the dark Kill the switch, kill the switch, a welcome comatose Tonight, we journey, this night, our journey's through the dark Kill the switch, kill the switch, a welcome comatose Tonight, we journey, this night, our journey's through the dark Kill the switch, kill the switch, a welcome comatose Tonight, we journey, this night, our journey's through the dark Kill the switch, kill the switch, a welcome comatose Tonight, we journey, this night, our journey's through the dark This night, our journey's through the dark This night, our journey's through the dark This night, our journey's through the dark As in sorrow So shall ye weep As in reason So shall ye sleep As in sorrow So shall ye weep As in reason So shall ye sleep [Instrumental Outro]