Rat Race

When the land splits in half beneath your feet
And I wonder, are you still gonna stick with me
I know it's not your heart
Not your heart that chooses
When you're jumping to the side that you can reach

Well I've seen enough to know it isn't long
Between changing stripes
And watching right turn wrong
I'd never want to leave your side
But everybody's gotta survive
And fight their fight wherever the lines are drawn

One time I got in on the ground floor
I was saying things that people never said before
I was on top of the world and so I couldn't feel it changing
'Til nobody was listening anymore

Just another rat race veteran
I ain't proud of who I had to be
Sometimes I knew that I was playing a part
Sometimes it got the better of me
Sometimes, sometimes
I took it all personally
Sometimes, sometimes
I was in the middle, exchanging cruelties
Between all the other rat race veterans
Like me
Like me

Well I'm sure I look like a liar or a fool
To say forever all the times that I do
Well maybe I'll never learn
If I mean it every time
When God only knows the things that we'll go through

As the flames rise higher
In an algorithmic fire
Watching angels turn to liars
Playing angles as they turn
The hundredth time it's hard to stay concerned
It's water under bridges long since burned

As the light shines brighter
In an algorithmic fire
And our fugitive desires
Have nowhere left to turn
Well I've lost track of what everyone deserves
It's water under bridges long since burned

Just another rat race veteran
I ain't proud of who I had to be
Sometimes I knew that I was playing a part
Sometimes it got the better of me
Sometimes, sometimes
I took it all personally
Sometimes, sometimes
I was in the middle exchanging cruelties
Between all the other rat race veterans
Between all the other rat race veterans like me