Ghost in the Machine (feat. Louise Frasier)

I've been dancing on the quicksand for one too many moments
 Swallowing the sunshine and company I've chosen
 Is the company of wolves, underneath their clothing
 They just hide their sheepish smiles that are sunk beneath the ocean
 With the chitty-chitty bang bang, pretty city same pain
 Do I? Did he? Witty, will he really let his fangs hang?
 Amen, 'cause that statement's all but obvious
 And all I want to know is what it takes to show my godliness
 I'm defacing all the monuments
 In this lonely desert, there's no trace of Ozymandias
 And I don't know how many people catch the references
 Caught up in the revelry but still they lack the reverence
 Of standards like my skeletons or craft the saddest elegance
 'Cause I can sink tsunamis that could probably crack the sediment
 And this is just an open, drunken, broken, sunken nothing
 Hoping that I'm something when the Reaper comes to sow
 Secrets of my soul are simply jagged
 Little pieces that'll finally show the truth if I can match it
 In a sequence, and they tell me that my eyes are simply windows to the soul
 But my window panes are only pain, here we go
 This is where you listen close, anaconda grips the throat
 Dancing with the devil and he's stepping on my mistletoes
 I'd give control if you can tell me it'll be alright
 'Cause nothing ever lives and no one ever really dies
 I see the past in your eyes
 Drift by like rain clouds in the sky
 Wondering how you can turn back time
 Trying to leave your past behind
 The rain that falls on your face
 Washing away the tears that trace
 I can't see if I'm a sacred place
 Hidden in somewhere safe
 I'm over-pessimistic in this slumbered frame of mind
 Even rainbows are just another bank to climb
 Another waste of time, that I feel but can't kiss
 I feel like Atlas when the thunder breaks my spine
 I've spent eleven hours sinking in the mud
 And all I've done is paint your facial features with my blood
 'Cause I've wasted half my life thinking I'm in love
 But it was just the side-effects of breathing ether in my lungs (Yes)
 Man bites dog, gnaws his hands right off
 Y'all just can't fight off all of mankind's flaws
 Call me atheist, a satanist or anti-god
 While I'll wait for this so place your bets 'til landslide fall off
 And I'll watch while the innocence shatters
 The Phoenix never comes to be risen from ashes
 We're all gone but there isn't a rapture
 And everything you loved was just visions of grandeur
 So I go to sleep (Sleep), listen inactively
 To my heart beat (Beat), is it a masterpiece?
 Or fool's gold, is feeling so cheap (Cheap)
 There's more than one way to go to and skin a catastrophe
 And actually, when the rose is red and caustic
 I'm just feeling like I'm frozen in these old, synthetic topics
 Where I'm dealing with the copacetic, open-ended logic
 That no one ever dies even though our flesh is tarnished
 I see the past in your eyes
 Drift by like rain clouds in the sky
 Wondering how you can turn back time
 Trying to leave your past behind
 The rain that falls on your face
 Washing away the tears that trace
 I can't see if I'm a sacred place
 Hidden in somewhere safe
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 I see the past in your eyes
 Drift by like rain clouds in the sky
 Wondering how you can turn back time
 Trying to leave your past behind
 The rain that falls on your face
 Washing away the tears that trace
 I can't see if I'm a sacred place
 Hidden in somewhere safe