Hello hello hello, Is this first time that you're here? The dead look in your eyes Tells me this is not too queer (for you) You dress so vanilla But you've made the switch From one who follows orders To the office bitch You choose to abuse The exact same way Your boss does to you With a higher salary The whips The chains The tension Enslaves The lips Remain Directions Behave The whips The chains The tension Enslaves The lips Remain Directions Behave Tied around your collar Is the sweat of all your peers Cufflinked in your H.R. A report of all your fears You walk around on fours like an Irish bull You made sure to consent ‘cause you’re not an animal You tag the motivational poster to say: “There’s power in love, but not the other way” The whips The chains The tension Enslaves The lips Remain Directions Behave The whips The chains The tension Enslaves The lips Remain Directions Behave The whips The chains The tension Enslaves The lips Remain Directions Behave The hips The brain The tension Enslaves The whips Remain Directions Behave

Hooked up to a sensor just To show you how I feel The words they just come easier prescribed There's something unidentified Sometimes I feel the same The half life's getting shorter every day There's something in our skies My lizard brain cannot convey Exhausting to explain The way the saucers rise and fade Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Oh-oh! Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Oh-oh! Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Another Half Life! Oh-oh!

Do you ever feel Like the walls they built around our town Are a bit too high and are never coming down? Do you ever feel Like the broadcast systems that play on the hour Are a bit too loud to resist ‘em ‘Cause I’ve been watching And they’ve been talking And we’ve been wanting To get away from the fallen Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Or is that just the bottle? Do you ever feel Like the feeling when we hold hands Is uh somethin’ indescribable to any of our friends? Do you ever feel Like there’s some narrow narrative that we’re supposed to follow? Some heteronormative imperative ‘Cause I’ve been watching And they’ve been talking And we’ve been wanting To get away from the fallen Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Or is that just the bottle? If you’re the chosen one they seek If you’re the king, I’ll be your queen If you’re the sunken hero, I’ll be the comic relief The speech you gave at the promenade Knocked us over with a wind that could blow the good wall down My fear lies in the aftermath Well, do you have a plan? And do you ever feel? And, I’d hate to ask, is any of this real? Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Do you ever feel like we’re living in a dystopian young adult novel? Or is that just the bottle That you refused and I did drink For all these thoughts, I doublethink: Why’d we disappear when it’s damn near utopian here?

Your red burns through my head Before I close my eyes Records Of the real world I had dreams Of what seemed Oh-oh Like the real world Like the real world You make me watch chemistry Test patterns that we can’t see It’s all that you writ It’s all in the script Of the teleplay I heard they can get by through Life without drugs Oh-oh In the real world They don’t need to pause their scene To regain their normalcy I know I know I know I know You make me watch chemistry Test patterns that we can’t see It’s all that you writ It’s all in their script Of the teleplay If We’re so off Why can’t we turn it on Going through motions Till’ we break static dawn Channel flipping Tidal-shifting Should we stop?

To idolize and lionize To elevate or alienate To speak truth to power When their truth is hate When they can’t be bothered To fairly pay the sewers Of fatal curtain calls In their safe space NO No more heroes NO No more heroes In a culture of comic books Here’s the lesson you can take No more heroes ‘Till we all get capes When the Duke and his horsemen Storm the castle at night When the only lesson they can teach to the Working classes is to blow out this little light Your silence is a siren I can’t make out From all this white noise In Dolby Surround NO No more heroes NO No more heroes In a culture of comic books, Here’s the lesson you can take No more heroes ‘Till we all get capes So forgo And embrace your reality ‘Cause you know it needs some love When the phone booth To change consists of Window pains Nowhere to run Become a vessel And levitate us to a higher ground Learn when to shut your mouth And when to join the chorus and shout NO No more heroes NO No more heroes In a culture of comic books, Here’s the lesson you can take No more heroes ‘Till we all get capes NO No more heroes NO No more heroes 'Till the institution of discrimination Meets its crumbling fate No more heroes ‘Till we all get capes

We choose to violate what we used to hide We have a knack to wrestle it back through pantomime Ain't it something to be? A kindhearted oddity? It seems what's next isn't as clear cut as it seems And I don't ask for much And I don't want much more Than all of you on the floor If everything's up for grabs, you better get first pick I'll take the public display while you affect the transit Ain't it something to be? Some kind of curatorial me? Who says a collage don't got soul when the bits came from a whole? And I don't ask for much And I don't want much more Than all of you on the floor Gunpowder as foundation: the true romantic trust You'll find your guts when you make kingdom come for once And I don't ask for much And I don't want much more Than all of you on the floor And we don't ask for much And we don't want much more Than all of you on the floor

You make me feel dumb In the best way And I could stare all night And read what you say My heart is sunk Before it wrecks I lick the envelope With my baited breath It's like we're falling into something real But babe we're so beyond that tired-old lust So let's make like shadows on the wall And get vicarious Sweet talkin’ the void Profess your love in a vacuum Means nothing at all Kind of fun to lay it all on you So here we go Sweet nothings Specters of affection Haunt the LED's But babe I'm crashin' Crush the glass Try to see it clearer But what's underneath Looks like a mirror It's like we're falling into something real But babe we're so beyond that tired old lust So let's make like we're our only ones And get vicarious Sweet talkin’ the void Profess your love in a vacuum Means nothing at all Kinda fun to lay it all on you She said that, “You only like it because you can project yourself on me" (You only like it because you can project yourself) She said that, “You only like it because you can project yourself on me, a prototype for something real” (At least I think she'd say that)

Oh my love, it’s been so long since you’ve spoke your mind When your jaw unhinges you leave a few stitches in my side Oh my love, it’s been so long since we’ve seen any sun, So hold me close ‘cause what’s a funeral without any fun? If I could have my way i’d sew your eyes From lookin’ anywhere else than at mine Formaldehyde To keep this love Lookin’ alive Formaldehyde To keep this love From burnin’ alive Oh my love, it’s been so long since we took the time Remember how when we wrote our vows we forgot a punchline Oh my love, I wouldn’t say our flame has died But all our friends are pitchin’ in and buying black ties I got some baby’s breath And buttercup So slap some lipstick To make it up Formaldehyde To keep this love Lookin’ alive Formaldehyde To keep this love From burnin’ alive We cannot deny The anger that’s been Pervading our hearts Kept us bargainin’ To reason our sin Nothing can hide A deep depression To unspool the lie We must admit Our deficits Nothin’ could stop Lazarus Except Formaldehyde To keep this love Lookin’ alive Formaldehyde To keep this love From burnin’ alive Formaldehyde To keep this love Lookin’ alive Formaldehyde To keep this love From burnin’ alive

Do you want me? Is my love allowed? Do you want me? Then come on, show me how Here's a match Strike the fire Burn it down If you desire This is a notice of introspection In your self-described imperfections I find affection (oh) Do you want me? Is my love allowed? Do you want me? Then come on, show me how! You put the heart in a cage when you need to You are the architect can't curb the beat too Strong enough to affect me You're strong enough to reject me So, do you want me? Is my love allowed? Do you want me? Then come on, show me how Do you want me? Is my love allowed? Do you want me? Then come on, show me how

Withered Tattered truth in Winter Red and white delivers The space to say Warmth lies Underneath your Dead eyes Running thoughts crystalize Come at no surprise Our lips in orbit Our lips in orbit Our lips in orbit Heavy Pressure left you Weary Pushed me towards some Theory Led to an eclipse When there’s Doubt about our Distance Shadows cross in The midst Of changing light (Don’t lose sight!) Our lips in orbit Our lips in orbit Our lips in orbit So I cling to the orbit And try not to stray As we get further from each other everyday You brought the sun When it felt man-made It feels like summer again So I cling to the orbit And try not to stray As we get further from each other everyday It will never seem so far away Knowing we'll be close again