The city stares at me with a fever, teeth loose in its mouth Entangled in its spit and drunk, they revel in its light And preach aloud that every effort to remain as we are will limit us Ghost of gentle form pleading with us Tell me Tell me how you cannot feel Your palms peel like snakes As our hands drive into wires? Apotheosis of the nervous dream Cells burn in the sea of information Tell me Tell me how I cannot know what I am? Progress distracts us from the vitality of the earth So far from death yet so devoid of life Neon falls around me Bending through perpetual rain Do you remember when we last had day? Reflections bleach the endless grey Clouds arrive and forever they remain I’ve been longing, begging To see a hand reach out from our dying sky To hold us and erase us of our godlessness It’s deafening isn’t it? The searing of chrome The endless drone The amphetamine edge And the pigs on their thrones The burning of light from the ocean of screens But I won’t accept this as our oppressive dream What makes us human is not dead I still have hope I still have hope Neon falls around me Bending through perpetual rain Do you remember when we last had day?