Songtexte:
Hostage Calm

He?ll have you know, That after ten hours spent in court, You?ll grow up knowing who you owe. He treats you right, And loved you more than his own wife

Everything I used to know Vanished faster than it came. I try to turn to you, It?s all in vain. Don?t underestimate All the damage that you?ve done.

Turned down, tuned out? For every dream I watched us knock to the ground We ?stood and stared? under the sun?s stark heat As it dried the cement that

The pact they made, I don't remember signing my name, The fact remains I can hear them calling out to me? Won't you save your sons The social slavery

In the midday you?ll hear summer groan Of how she misses years of old. Her temperament?s been stretched so thin, Revealing signs of silent discontent

Standing at a distance Collecting measured, empty fiction. Syndicated day-time faces Spin the world into their favor. (And there?s dead air on the airwaves

Fragile, frail and dazed This world burns in mysterious ways, Aggression deemed protection Has got us up in arms again. Neo-conned by the GOP? Our new

Poke holes in the world I?m shown We are so malleable For I?m not so sure What makes them so secure It?s well known, And all the billboards show It?

near: I go to watch things disappear. And we find time to wonder why things won?t feel right. (Without escape the hostage waits) With drawn out wars