Ebb and Flow

In the basement waiting for a statement
 But station's frequency is vacant
 Why don't we go outside
 In the break room waiting for a big boom
 Smoke haze rising in a big plume
 Everyone's dissatisfied
 The pools have dried
 The trial's been tried
 But the leak's still spilling
 They don't know what to do
 The flow won't stop
 Pressure still won't drop
 Tanks are overfilling
 Forward we crawl
 Backwards we fall
 Through the Ebb and the Flow
 Living within a dream
 Wading through the stream
 Beyond the Ebb and Flow
 
 Up late to earn the proceeds
 All stressed out working til your eyes bleed
 Overtime to buy things we don't need
 Your always on the go
 And you're thirty thirty
 Gotta make the ends
 And get dirty dirty
 Will it ever stop
 Will it ever end
 Is it worthy
 The reality of this
 Is you go loco loco
 And too much of this way
 And you'll go postal postal
 Happens all the time get in line
 And go comatose
 The moms and pops
 Have all closed up shop
 And who can blame them
 I don't know anyone
 The kids just hide
 Scared to go outside
 And just who can blame them
 At times it seems unreal
 We can see but we can't feel
 And no one's at the wheel
 Born here all alone
 Growing old with hearts of stone
 The lights are on
 But no one's home
 Forward we crawl
 Backwards we fall
 Through the Ebb and the Flow
 Living within a dream
 Wading through the stream
 Beyond the Ebb and Flow
 Images we have made
 Cross and fade
 Into the Ebb and Flow