Stuck Dreaming

Stuck dreaming, believing an American dream

Kept sedated so I won't realize

Given everything I need on a TV screen

So I won't even have to close my eyes

Stuck dreaming, believing that we're all free

And everything I see has got to be right

So sweat shop labor won't matter to me

As long as the sweat shops are kept out of sight

Stuck dreaming, believing what I want to believe

Believing I'm able to create an uprise

I'm free to do it whenever I please

Unless I'm so sedated that I don't realize

I'm stuck dreaming, in a cloudy land of bliss

Spending all my time on spending my time

Never noticing all the things I miss

Too busy just trying to try to survive

Stuck dreaming, that there's an easier way

I'll be saved by a last minute stroke of luck

Or by some salesman that I'll have to pay

Who was waiting, watching for me to get stuck

Dreaming, thinking that things would look up

Looking up to see faces staring down at me

Dividing and deciding if I'll make the cut

If I'm worth the time it takes to see

But I'm stuck dreaming of ways I might impress

The interested investors who will buy my time

Cause I don't use it, except to get washed and dressed

To show prospective buyers my goods are fine

But I'm stuck dreaming, that old American scheme

Thinking I can do anything that I please

But my plans aren't turning out how they seemed

And the more I try the more I feel diseased

I'm stuck in a dream

Or so it seems

But it's not mine

Is it yours

Why should I wait

At open gates

Getting irate

For an answer

Why do I stand

At a line in the sand

When I don't understand

Who drew it

Wait to be told

What I'll be sold

It's the same same old

But I'll buy it

It's all I can afford

And there'll be no more

Without our support

You better know it

So you can belong

Act like nothings wrong

Sing the same old song

And enjoy it

suppression

training my brain to remain insane

training me to be a killing machine

look at the numbers, not the faces

speak with fists and not embraces

no matter what, you must despise

before you're close enough to look in their eyes

your first impression must be to not be impressed

to reduce the feelings that you'll have to suppress

Like rats

Like rats, fighting with eachother for table scraps

Like rats, feeding on the corpses of other rats

Like rats, ready and waiting for a fight

Like rats, scurrying at the flash of lights

The Whisper in the Trees

When the whisper blowing in the trees 

Is singing out for you to believe

But your ear is too plugged to hear it

Your eye is caught by a glow it sees

That slowly reveals it's complexities

Showing you that there's no need to fear it

Secrets shared for taking the time

To make you once again feel sublime

As your bloodshot eyes start tearing

And the wind still whispers in the trees

As you send back the bill for your cable fees

So you can choose which channel you're hearing

Cue Card

The world at your finger tips

With just a few clicks

But do you take 

The chance to find it

Or instead are you lead

In circles past the logos

And the brand names

Illustrated by scenes 

Of the nuclear age family

Filling your eyes 

Till you despise 

Anything thats different

From how that looks

And you believe it all as if

You read it in a book

Cause you read it

Or someone said it

And nowadays that's 

A rare event to witness

But that's the reason I'm afraid

No one's gonna get this

Because it's rare

For you to hear

Someone saying something

That you haven't already heard

When everybody's reading

Off of the same cue card

At the Inauguration of Barack Obama

Manifestation of diversity

Representing both you and me

A well elected presidency

Empowering those who were powerless

By simply stating the answer is 'yes'

When asked to handle another man's mess

With watchful eye and steady voice

Convinced us he should be the choice

To bring new reasons to rejoice

Now here we gather in the cold and stand

To see this brave and noble man

And hear his ideas for our troubled land

But more than words do we receive

His presence alone inspires us to believe

With heart money, there's nothing you can't achieve

Dawn

In the East the sun is rising

While in the West night fades away

Light and shadow are divided

As darkness gradually fades to day

Electric Castles

When day is night and night is day

How then will you know the way

When night is day and day is night

What will be your guiding light

As day and night both come and go

Will electric castles even know

When night and day both pass you by

Will you know the reason why