Dead Air

I can't endure the silence
That envelops me
Thickens as it entangles
Snake oil salesman
Saying it's for the better

These growing inequities
Just furthers the gap
Between you and me
I can't keep standing aside
Listening to these manufactured lies

The smallest issues you neglect
Keep tacking on depth to our debt
It compounds in aggregate
Slowing the pulse
In our bodies until
We forget

There are no monsters or demons
That keep you from being better
There is a willful lack of commitment

If I can't start turning back the clocks
Embedded within our lungs
Another expansion could be
My last one
Our fragile networks becoming undone

I keep trying to scream out solutions
But all I'm met with is dead air
I keep trying to clear your pollutions
But all I'm met with is dead air
I'm trying to change your route
But all I'm met with is dead air
I'm trying to reach out
But all I'm met with is dead air

There are no monsters or demons
That keep me from being better
There is only me

The devils you create
Are the ones you never see
The monsters of your worst fears
Bares your identity

We feel ourselves living a lie
But can't push past the deception
Don't we fear the only vexes
That we ourselves deliver

I keep trying to scream out solutions
But all I'm met with is dead air
I keep trying to clear your pollutions
But all I'm met with is dead air
I'm trying to change your route
But all I'm met with is dead air
I'm trying to reach out
But all I'm met with is dead air

The water used to rise here
Before and be clear of debris
And I used to hear the winged symphony
Sing so loudly
In Earth echoing
The voices projecting an old harmony
Every member singing in key
Every member singing in key