Wheel

Our resolve is close to breaking

Under your watchful eye

All that's left is a prevailing

Sense of social apathy

It wasn't like you said

Were powerless and unable to alter our direction

Slippin' down directly into the bottom of a hole

Is it any surprise we're losing patience

While you chase another elusive enemy

While our fear is amplified

Another culture demonized

It only serves to catalyze

This burning desire for isolation

Or is that what you wanted from the start?

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes of the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Why don't you shut up and give me the medicine?

Suck it up and give us a reason

Why this failed initiative

Gives you the right to listen in

I feel empty

There's nowhere left to hide

I need someone to appease my conscience

Will the end justify the means?

Where there was dissent, there is only silence

We're all just cogs in a grand machine

Just like back in '84

There were eyes on every wall

It might be time to learn to crawl

When privacy becomes a product to be traded for another

Products to be traded for another

Products to be traded for another

Products to be traded for another

They know everything about you

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes of the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Why don't you shut up and give me the medicine?

Suck it up and give us a reason

Let's burn down the figure head

I'm losing my mind, it never seems to end

On the periphery

The shadows start to fall

They're moving surreptitiously

Or am I getting paranoid?

When did we lose our way?

There's nothing left to say

I'm ready for a change

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes of the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Shut up and give me the medicine

Suck it up and give us a reason

Nobody mourned our innocence

And none of us buy that we are any safer