Common Existence lyrics

Watched him walk away (watched him walk away)
Climb the endless shadow side
Watched him holding on
(watched him holding on) (watched him walk away)

It was a thousand years, a thousand miles, a thousand dreams,
a thousand endings
With no goodbye
Disappear from me (a thousand miles, a thousand dreams,
a thousand endings)
Hold on!
As he climbed the highest peak of the dark mountain

There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight
And it's pinned to the chest of the latest liars.
If you try to speak your mind
They tell you "keep it to yourself-
You got friends in the armed forces."
They want to know which side you're on
But it doesn't matter because we're all being used
To train, to fight
To disregard our human rights
To play the part
The conscience of the damned.

This is the last time
That you'll ever hear me say:
Last call for a better life
In wedding and cheap champagne.
Last call for a friday night
In bathroom stalls and crowded bars.
Last call. Right before your eyes,
We celebrate our separate lives.
Last Call. Where are you friends?
They're speaking secrets in a silent shout:
Everything we build, it falls apart,
And the architect abandons us.

They sold the old house,
Boarded up the rooms,
Just the way you wanted it.
They took your possessions
And gave them all away
With the ghost
You sing like the wind
In the trees at night
You think I'm asleep
But I'm awake for it.
Did you think you could hide
so easily
That no one ever hears you
when you say:
"love has led us astray,
Love won't let us leave."

First we're cut from the cloth

Ambulance, let me in.
Don't make me stay here.
Ambulance, hold your breath.
We're running short on air.
Breathe it in. Resuscitate.
At the edge, you see clearly.
I was dead now I'm back to life
And love is a fragile thing.
We all stand on a bridge
That's been slowly burning down.

Ambulance, take me back
To the house I was born in.
Ambulance, finish it.
Don't wake me up again.

A paper crane, in a dirty drain, trying to dry
her wings.
The atom split between her lips in the final stage.
The chemicals dissolve and the family disappears.
She sees her life slip between the cracks in the
atomic age
Like a shot in the vein.

Can a pilot see the the distant arc of history?
A thousand suns all burst at once in a blinding rage.
We need a drug, we need something to take the

It's the sigh of a building falling down
It's the world spinning us around
It's the slip of the surgeon's knife
And the darker crimes of common existence

It's a missile that's sleeping in the ground
It's a camera trying to photograph a sound
It's a case for the basic flaw:
The end of the film in the coming attractions

It's a cell that's spinning out of control