Time & Time

We're living in divided times
The world has gone and lost their minds
Believe whatever your hero says
A little closer to the edge

So light the night and watch as cities burn
Playing follow the leader like a true believer to the point of no return
It makes no sense, just coughing up the same
When you just can't win but get pawned again in a better player's game

We're living in divided times
Consumer goods to advertise
Bad blood bones picked clean again
But somebody somewhere's cashing in

Empty words get taken to extremes
The mental mob's excuse to give you the juice or a noose or a guillotine
It just keeps on and no one seems to care
While the blasts from the past that were all such a gas keep hanging in the air

It's another headline every day
It's another headline every day
Wasted words, forgotten yesterday

The last commandment taught the rule of force
Cheated in class when you took a collision course
And the bats in the belfry always want to sell me the same old thing
But the sound of the crowd as the ship goes down oughta keep you entertained

It'll keep you entertained

We're living in divided times
Where the cameras never close their eyes
Another fire in another store
Well, I think I've seen this show before

We're living in divided times
Where we ignore what we recognize
Saw the writing on the wall
But there was no one left to take the fall

Saw the writing on the wall
No one left to take the fall
Saw the writing on the wall
Now there's no one left at all

And now there's no one left to take the blame
No one left to buy the lie when we make the same mistakes
The same old stories written once again
when we burned the books that were warning us of what could have been

What could have been