Elective Amnesia

We don't sleep very much These triggers ache for the touch Where's the strength we relied on? Here alone, like a crutch Maybe that's what keeps us up All night with a light on Howling screams simulate Lives that no longer take place Can this be what we've become? Paper thin, overweight Pills to arouse or sedate Still we don't know what we want We can let go, can't you see? To lose control is to be Finally free First a spark, then a flame, now a fire We explode Into the darkest of nights Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead Now they'll know With everything comes a price And each day we are torn Between the right and the wrong Between life and convenience While you sleep, while complain There's always channels to change It's like elective amnesia As we grow older in this place Let's just start over, let's erase What they've made First a spark, then a flame, now a fire We explode Into the darkest of nights Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead Now they'll know With everything comes a price It could be minutes away It could be hours or days Before the bottom falls out Before the ground gives way Into this debt we are born A debt we try to repay And yet we blacken the sky Smoke rising out of the flames Now they'll know (First a spark, then a flame, now a fire) We explode Into the darkest of nights (Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead) Now they'll know With everything comes a price (First a spark, then a flame, now a fire) We explode, we explode With everything comes a price (Disconnect, cut the cord, lights are dead) We explode We explode