About The Purpose That We Serve

Lyrics

So we're caught in conversation Lost in language I can't understand Civility's a foil for all the blood that stains the soil We never scratch beneath the surface of the sand Dialed-in dreams, dissociation This type of talk makes me wanna cry It took people in the street to make modernity complete Don't take a PhD to see it was a lie Every action driven in the living Nourished with some notions close at hand Some food for thought, one just might choke on what they're given There's so, so many voices, look around and you've got choices But the angle's always altered for convienience Common sense so tailored to the time It were ever to conserve that which we think that we deserve Perverted and preserved to stay in line Beware the seduction of those choices Especially the easiest to see Somewhere in the middle falls a deep dismissal of us all And expectation it would endlessly be we Who cast a vote of no imagination Who dive down hook-and-sinker for the line A thing called progress is so produced through practiced patience But metaphors for forward motion often reel you back in time, I tell you We two were waxing philosophic About the purpose that we serve About our fracturing perspectives About the trust that we deserve Some say you've got no way of knowing So leave it to the ones who do Be it a priest or politician Know it's never you It's just a mode of our oration It's just a taking of the truth Why would we purpose all our wisdom On a standard so loose