The House Time Haunts

Dusk swallows the day
We claim but a shallow pay
As we seek to survive
Our ethic, never the question
But rather the clearest answer, the path
To a fruitful life
So start the race at break-neck pace
We'd rather starve than waste an hour of precious time
We'll get out more than what we put in
Start to shake from caffeine intake
Nights spent awake leave prints beneath our eyes
Like purple war paint for all to see
Clutching to dreams with calloused hands and aching bones

What have we done?
Are we doomed to be the house that time haunts?
It's all we know
But is it wrong?
Still we choose to carry on

Start the day eight hours straight, find a meal and make haste
To switch uniforms
Find energy to complete another eight
It all must be worth it, exhaustion is lurking
Car broke down again today
Find a way, we can't be late
Time lost, tuition paid
I'll find a way and pray it's not all in vain
And when I come to know, it will be too late
With every seed that I sow youth is stripped away
Passion sculpted in mountains we climb
Could all be lost at the drop of a D.I.M.E.
(A dime)

One day
I realized
(Goodbye)
So naive
Goodbye

To the vigor lost, spent toiling away
In hopes the fates did not weave a thread that has frayed
Vapid subsistence
Insipid indifference betrothed to a feigned, despotic love

She said to me,
"What have we done?"
Are we doomed to be the house that time haunts?
It's all we know
A tired song
Still we choose to carry on

Give it back to me
We have strayed, I was wrong
Kronos reigns and I'm his pawn
Give it back to me
A child's eyes are only bright for so long