The proposition
Handcuffed to the park bench
Hypodermic people poking fun at the living
Please take the weight out of this
It takes the weight out of living
Are we just infants
That are ripe for the training
The opposition
Can't feel the tentacle reach suction cup the numb arms of the elderly
Please lift the weight out of this
It takes the weight out of living
Let these walkers trip on endless proof

Pattern against user, dilated
Bastard waiting for nothing
Circus carny guarding
The gates of heaven
Pact stuck in limbo abduction
Wormed our way through distant earth
Wormed our way through distant earth

This intuition
Limps with the cane of suspicion
Folding space in the crease of this page
It takes the weight out of this
It takes the weight out of
Trickling the ticking of this grandfather clock
The opposition
Can't feel the tentacle reach suction cup the numb arms of the elderly

Pattern against user- dilated
Bastard waiting for nothing
Circus carny guarding
The gates of heaven
Pact stuck in limbo abduction
Wormed our way through distant earth
Wormed our way through distant earth

And if this clock keeps ticking away
Will time be hesitated
Of all the minutes that were taken away
Will your watch be waiting
Sand falls through
Time portals
These landfills, immortal
And if this clock keeps beating down
Let the branded time keep playing
Of all the minutes that were taken away
Will your watch be waiting

Pattern against user, dilated
Bastard waiting for nothing
Circus carny guarding
The gates of heaven
Pact stuck in limbo abduction
Wormed our way through distant earth
Wormed our way through distant earth

Wormed our way through distant earth
Wormed our way through distant earth


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    Ok, it's a great band but... what the fuck means this lyric? I like all the songs, but I don't understand what they're talking about.

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