Dropping the Torch

Lyrics

[Verse 1] We play games and every move Is noted down as a subsequent cause And effectively chains our freedom and will to live; We settle in to simple survival Hanging on our pleasures grimly... We must never let them go [Verse 2] Our prison walls are slowly built Stone by stone and day by day; No provision for escape Entombed alive in safety And decay [Bridge] Time sets around us in killing frames Black border round our names Our fingers lose their grip And the torch slips [Verse 3] The enemy for everyone Is everyone, inside I feel the hand of security Creep on me with ice-cold fingers And crush my flower of freedom; I've lost the course of my adventure All the things I'd meant to do are lost [Bridge] There is only one flame each To keep alive in the wind But finally we snuff them out All by ourselves [Verse 4] We set traps and, in the end Fall into our own snares And have nowhere to go [Outro] Time ever moves more slowly; Life gets more lonely And less real