Johnny’s got a story about this girl who doesn’t want to break free

He’s out chasing midnights in the dim glow of the dream

Johnny likes to talk about the things that he wished you would believe

But all the rivers pull him out to sea

Come out to the middle with me

Always changing, rearranging, reinventing, new belief

Come out to the middle with me

Always changing, rearranging

Somehow we always

Shake free

Of dead centuries

And the dust in the dream

Of light and of heat

Come on, shake free

Of dead centuries

And the shadows that sleep

In the softest release

Come on, shake free

Lucy’s chasing shadows in the corners of his room while he sleeps

She’s drifting with the lights from the traffic below

Lucy’s pretty sure that there’s a reason for everything

She just wants a bit part in the show

Come out to the middle with me

Always changing, rearranging, reinventing, new belief

Come out to the middle with me

We can change

Shake free

Of dead centuries

And the dust in the dream

Of light and of heat

Come on, shake free

Of dead centuries

And the shadows that sleep

In the softest release

Come on, shake free

Shake free

So all the doors keep closing

Shake free

And some wars are never done

But come on

Get clean

Bite down on your cavities

Still alive in the wake of

A dead century

And we don’t have to die

Living the eulogy

Shake free

Of dead centuries

And the dust in the dream

Of light and of heat

Come on, shake free

Of dead centuries

And the shadows that sleep

In the softest release

Come on, shake free

Johnny’s solitaire is getting scary

He’s back out to sea

Just wants to be some part of the story we all know

Lucy’s holding on and holding out

And kicking in her sleep

She just wants to be some part of the show

And they’re both trading hours

Playing scaffold for the next machines

Like all the ones who came before half alive on hope

Lucy’s pretty sure

That there’s a reason for everything

Lucy’s pretty sure

That there’s a reason for

Dead centuries

Dead centuries

Dead centuries

Dead centuries