Flame Lyrics

I don’t want to go to the flame

See how terribly this needs to change?

I saw the Übermensche in old Green Park

His long strides I sighed when he caught my eye he tried to run me down

and the lambs laid all around

Across the western deserts

We built these great grey cities

We moved to towers of ivory

with a view that looks to nothing

We lie awake at bedtime

We fall asleep in sunshine

When the sky was clear were you grounded?

Did you know what your plot was about?

It took the men on horses years just to get to them

Move slow and we won’t go to the flame

Foresee how terribly this needs to change

I saw the analysts in their tall glass monuments

They target my group using spreadsheets and stats

they steal our ideas and they sell them back

Across the western deserts

We built these great grey cities

We throw seeds from the turret

in lofty hopes that they will flourish

We lie awake at bedtime

We fall asleep in sunshine

But when the sky was clear were you grounded?

Did you know what your plot was about?

Are you living in a warehouse?

Or a palace you just can’t see out?

It took the men on horses years just to get to them