Once Was Paradise This morning I got up early as if it's going to be a brand new day couldn't sleep again last night symphony of sirens wailing must have been another tragedy up the street everyone's gone to check out the scene can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy all the violence in your games is not enough all the rage out on the highway's not enough you're safe in your armchair you know that can't happen here don't tell me that I'm paranoid don't tell me that this is paradise don't tell me that we're doing fine open the door look out at the alienation As I wash my trembling hands another satellite goes up as I get into my sweat-stained clothes another smart bomb is ready to go as I prepare my meager breakfast another starving baby cries as I check my empty mailbox another soldier screams and dies can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy my TV scares me a lot these days so I'm going to take it all apart over it's pieces I'll stand and scream an empty cry of desperation into the dead gray air of my little room before I go out into the killing streets to wander among the machines and beasts of this frantic foreign lonely land don't try to tell me that I'm paranoid don't try to sell me that this is paradise don't tell me that we're doing fine open the door breathe in the stench of the alienation can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy can't get enough blood to satisfy (the dreamyard lies broken under a barren sky there used to be birds in this park but we don't have time for birds anymore once there were flowers along this walk but there's no room for flowers anymore once there were kids playing here but this is no place for kids these days what have we done what have we become what have we done what have we become what have we done what have we become)

listen now.... you can hear the sound of uneasy laughter forced bitter the music cries, we've had enough look around see the eyes of tired people pushed too far for too long the fingers are forming fists not everyone can buy enough distractions to stay content and not see what's going on there are no more tomorrows there is no more next chance you've got a voice what will be your choice forced to march or free to dance walk around you can feel the air pulse with desperation despair danger the party will soon begin... we're almost ready... let's go! it doesn't matter what your media tells us because you own them all yeah, we figured that out what difference if I vote red or blue they both dance for you you keep us busy fighting one another divide and conquer and we've fallen for it you keep us busy wanting more and more but we're giving more and more to you it goes beyond countries and it goes beyond religion the name of your game is power and you've changed all the rules most of my friends think I'm crazy don't know how I'll fit into your new world order so what happens next do I just disappear when will you disappear when will you disappear when will you disappear when will you

A Boy and His Machine He was a quiet boy with an interest in science he could repair any household appliance but he didn't like people, he would brood in defiance a boy and his machine a boy and his machine folks said he never seemed very ambitious he never cared for cars or girls or riches no one ever dreamed what his secret wish is a boy and his machine a boy and his machine wires and lights and switches on a box behind the basement door behind a half a dozen locks he won't come out no matter how hard you knock a boy and his machine a boy and his machine down in the basement he's proud of his construction he's built a device with a deadly function press this button for world destruction a boy and his machine a boy and his machine

we're all part of a vast food chain the pain of nature is the nature of pain you eat to live you live to be eaten even on top, in the end you'll be beaten each link is a life each link is a death each link is the very first and the very last breath the links form a chain the chain binds us all from the swamps and the jungles to the food court at the mall the rich eat the poor isn't that what they're for the big eat the little the extremes eat the middle the fast eat the slow the young eat the old the mean eat the meek for it's easy that they seek the large eat the small and time eats us all you are what you eat what you eat is you it's all a big cycle don't get into a stew just grab it and eat it before it grabs and eats you burn down the banks board up the churches but please spare the deli heed not your head nor your heart if you're smart give in to the urges and follow your belly so let's have a great big smile now and show those pearly whites in this life you've got two choices the animals know: it's flight or fight what makes you think we're any different 'cause we've got a bigger brain? if we are so much smarter how come we've filled our world with pain some things in this life aren't fair some things just aren't right some of the snakes you find out there have got two legs and they are ready to bite all the snakes are hungry and they've got you in their sights so sharpen up your fangs unless you're ready to say goodnight you can't escape the food chain so don't think you're too clever the hunt goes on and on and no one stays on top forever no one stays on top forever no one stays on top forever