PANDEMIC

I can't talk to my brother,
I can't understand what he's on about
He's resigned to just existing
Screening the real world out.
He's a boy without faith or ambitions
And it brings me down to hear him say
He doesn't really want to live anymore,
'Cause he's just gonna die someday.
It seems pandemic to me
Oh yeah
It seems pandemic to me.
Everybody's got their cue, gotta spend their days in wait.
Dingy and cold like sideways souls just caroming through their fates, and they'll say,
We only waited on our lives
Watching each other age
Years withered on our balding heads
And no consolation ever came
As if the bugle might have blown itself until the hunters went deaf
The foxes may come search for us instead, but there'll be no-one left.
A thousand years in the future
The villagers' minds have long collapsed.
Amputated mannequins
Grin as if they'll get their chance
Dogs abolish all music
Killing off the last protagonist
The survivors watch for a verdict
Where no truth or law exists
It seems pandemic to me.
Oh yeah
Far too pandemic and
You'll prop up your feet 'til the apocolypse, gettin' set to get dumped into hell,
You just keep pretending to give a shit, 'cause that's where you really excel, and they'll say,
We only waited on our lives
Watching each other age
We lost our minds in remarkable time,
And no carts of fortunes ever came
As if the music might have played itself until the crowds went deaf
The foxes may come search for us instead, but there'll be no-one left.