They heard me singing and they told me to stop Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock These days, my life, I feel it has no purpose But late at night the feelings swim to the surface 'Cause on the suburbs the city lights shine They're calling at me, 'come and find your kind Sometimes I wonder if the world's so small Then we can never get away from the sprawl Living in the sprawl Dead shopping malls rise like mountains beyond mountains And there's no end in sight I need the darkness someone please cut the lights