The Spectacle

Sleepwalking

The Spectacle


I have been walking in my sleep 
and only now I am beggining to wake up 
I used to have nightmares 
Now I know they are for real 
Sweat, confused, disoriented, lost 
Like a cloaustrophobic in a cage 
and I want to get the fuck out 

These problems we have got a very much for real 
Is a fight to live less noble than a fight to survive? 
These scraps we are served only increses the ever present hunger 
for something more, something more than crumbs for a sickening table 

Oh mind troubled oh heart flat and punctured 
Only frustrations are flowing in these veins 
There is no food, there is no refuge 

Still we marvel at our own madness 
in the gaze of a world that we created 
but still cannot recognize as our own 
ugly as it is to us now 
an image of harmony at the centere of misery 
freedom lost to slavery 
I used to have nightmares 
now I know they are for real 

Try to take one step over the edge 
and see where you fall 
you'll see they look down on you 
you'll see they throw stones at you 
and spit 

These problems we have got a very much for real 
Is a fight to live less noble than a fight to survive? 
These scraps we are served only increses the ever present hunger 
for something more, something more than crumbs for a sickening table