Shelter

We are lost inside the spiral of this town, sucked down In deep denial that we'll somehow get out alive Sea of steel, plastic, and halogen, we float above We'll pull the plug and then the city will lose its light We are frightened, we are sacrilegious We are worth more than they'll give us for it Sell out for a pound of salt These streets raised us, this sea bathed us And we should not be so damn ungrateful But we just want to see it fall And I saw you laugh in a nightmare And I heard these words in a dream You said These grounds are haunted But not by you and me And we've all been dead before And you know this world can't last for long We have no chance And we have no plans to try and change our fate One day this will be a skeleton Of all we used to love and hate And then these beams Will be just like bones And we will tell them all about And they'll build a modest iron monument And get the details wrong And I saw you laugh in a nightmare And I heard these words in a dream You said These grounds are haunted But not by you and me And we've all been dead before And you know this world can't last for long We have no chance And we have no plans to try and change our fate And we built this tomb around ourselves Our brick immortal As they embalm the surface We'll burrow further underground And till it's over This is what we'll call home