Welcome to the World
Baby
You have all these romantic fantasies
But you're going nowhere, and you're getting there fast
Yeah, you're just skipping class
Creeping in the back rooms and running from reality
You scream about freedom and kisses
While I crush my dreams in my fists
And stare after you, deprived of sleep
Waiting
Welcome to the world
It's a movie set
Actor's regrets
And the camera sees it all
When the weight of our feet cracks this dry cement
We'll see what really lies beneath
Taste the bitterness of failed revelations
I have seen the livid truth
And through that, have lost my youth
I'm older now that I was before
Time keeps marching on
Through teargas bombs
And things keep getting worse
Or are they just the same?
I guess it don't matter
'Cause this train ain't stopping
It's headed straight for nowhere
Stopping off at despair
With a brief pause somewhere as empty as it is cold
And that is truly where I wanna go
Where honesty will kill you because honestly?
It's 65 below
But make sure before you freeze to death
To read the writing in your breath
And see it isn't written just by you
But by the people in this room who loves you
I wish you were here
So we could stand tall and spit on my fears
I'd take you by the hand
And we'd vanish in my imagination
Listen to the man who whispers broken things in my ears
Tells me to give up hope
That this is just the way things are
And the way they will always be
So I declare a war on standing still
Keep moving and things will get better someday
Wait for the prophets to come around again
Then throw up our fists and pretend we can be heard
That everyone will know the words
Rally around a false unity
Because that is all there is.
Welcome to the world.
You have all these romantic fantasies
But you're going nowhere, and you're getting there fast
Yeah, you're just skipping class
Creeping in the back rooms and running from reality
You scream about freedom and kisses
While I crush my dreams in my fists
And stare after you, deprived of sleep
Waiting
Welcome to the world
It's a movie set
Actor's regrets
And the camera sees it all
When the weight of our feet cracks this dry cement
We'll see what really lies beneath
Taste the bitterness of failed revelations
I have seen the livid truth
And through that, have lost my youth
I'm older now that I was before
Time keeps marching on
Through teargas bombs
And things keep getting worse
Or are they just the same?
I guess it don't matter
'Cause this train ain't stopping
It's headed straight for nowhere
Stopping off at despair
With a brief pause somewhere as empty as it is cold
And that is truly where I wanna go
Where honesty will kill you because honestly?
It's 65 below
But make sure before you freeze to death
To read the writing in your breath
And see it isn't written just by you
But by the people in this room who loves you
I wish you were here
So we could stand tall and spit on my fears
I'd take you by the hand
And we'd vanish in my imagination
Listen to the man who whispers broken things in my ears
Tells me to give up hope
That this is just the way things are
And the way they will always be
So I declare a war on standing still
Keep moving and things will get better someday
Wait for the prophets to come around again
Then throw up our fists and pretend we can be heard
That everyone will know the words
Rally around a false unity
Because that is all there is.
Welcome to the world.