It's not about influences, it's about style
We could counterreact this but it'd take a while
Graverob corpses and put them on sticks
Parade around town chauffeuring their lifelessness
The future's uncertain cause we're all depressed
We take the prescriptions, our behavior has been set
But yet the past was never like that
It's not as red as you know it to be
It'll never be
We came for the music and stayed for the people
But they're all making me ill, so what's the point?
Claim authority by identifying a thing
Demand direct action and target it aimlessly
Meet dunning and kruger and the dominos fall
The group fizzles out, it's like it never happened at all
And yes the past was always like that
And it seems we're doomed to loop history
And in commercials, people dance with such innocent glee
Cause behind the lens, life's beautiful and everyone is free
It's all we can do, represent the world in a way that we
Want to get to, but we build things up
Just to tear them down
And build them up again
But yet the past was never like that
But the future certainly could be