Industrial Oblivion

Smiling faces, ticking clocks
What is real and what is not?
System failure on the core
Restarting now all back on

All in line now
It's time again to feed the starving beast
I said no-one breaks the line
Heads down, don't you deviate

So here we are crawling in the dark
Here we stand wounded and unsure
Dazzled, dizzy, and small
Tell me now weren't I the one?

My dearest one dance for me
As I'm winding up your music box
This piercing sound echoing the truth
Like a blade straight into our hearts

So here we are stripping naked
An unravelling tale of who we were
Footprints on the sand of time
Of what we could have become

Mirror mirror on the wall
Tell me who's the fairiest of all
Dusty spotlights of just
Pointing out right from wrong
Orchestrated litany of lies
Pilling up until we choke again

In the midst of controversy
Oh, rain down and wash our bleeding vanities
This industrial agony
We've past the point of no return

My dearest one dance for me
As I'm winding up your music box
This piercing sound echoing the truth
Like a blade straight into our hearts

So here we are stripping naked
An unravelling tale of who we were
Footprints on the sand of time
Of what we could have become