They Know

I'm the prisoner of an insane regime
They let me walk around but I cannot leave
Their control here is almost complete, the last step now is for me believe
Believe that they're trying or that and they really mean well
Believe they can't see and that they think they offer hope
I know that they don't, but they won't leave it alone

Their faces all smiles and their rhetoric choice
The common line "it's the best that we've got"
Their fallback defense is that they don't know
They've asked, and they've asked, but I cannot say so

They know, they know, they know
They know, they know, they know

This place is a lifeboat and the captains got this grin
Makes me wanna jump over board and swim
As hard as I can away from it all
There is nowhere to go, so I stay and I row
I want the safety of home, but they keep saying no
"You do the work, we've got it all figured out, just row"

Their faces all smiles and their rhetoric choice
The common line "it's the best that we've got"
Their fallback defense is that they don't know
They've asked, and they've asked, but I cannot say so

They know, they know, they know
They know, they know, they know

You know you're safe somewhere inside, so you take your time
While you wait its life, so don't claim you tried

Their faces all smiles and their rhetoric choice
The common line "it's the best that we've got"
Their fallback defense is that they don't know
They've asked, and they've asked, but I cannot say so

They know, they know, they know
They know, they know, they know

I can tell you something 'bout the cards that they hold
They like to have you believe that they don't, but they know
They've come to their pulpits, they want my support
They say we're doing our best you've got to know, but I don't

They know, they know
They know (they know), they know (they know), they know (they know)
They know (they know), they know (they know), they know (they know)
They know (they know), they know (they know), they know (they know)