Nothing New Lyrics

The greater good seems an unknown sum

Of separate paths in dispersion

Adding up all our different goals

Only multiplies the division

And we deny we forgot; we forget we deny...

Look back on the days you've walked this track

In all honesty, haven't you ever thought

Every yesterday is punched back to back

And every consecutive day is but a copied fraud?

Not a single incident you wanted to occur

Not a dream that isn't pasted back from pieces

Every new person you still recognize through a blur

Every new place is but a setting from the movies

And I don't want to hear

That insane denial anymore

'Cause it strikes me as evading

Of what you're accountable for

I admire your tenacious clamp

Being born convinced this time's the first

Without prior deeds and a conscience blank

Disbelieving the best, suppressing the worst

Not a single incident that you wanted to occur

Not a dream that isn't pasted back from pieces

Every new person you still recognize through a blur

Every new place is but a setting from the movies

And you really need to look

At your insane denial fast

That it truly wasn't you who have

Made this misery of the past!

More universes ago than we care to remember

Lies the insidious source of that misty notion

The vague hunch we somehow get when current events

Lightly spark the glow of a smoldering ember

When inventions that sail in on intuition

Don't appear an innovation bright and true

We are simply treading down the rut of many ages

Deep inside we know - we know: it's nothing new

Let's commit ourselves to what we are

Causing all effects that we are victims to

Take a broader look from a distance far

Recognize what you've done is just what you'd do

We haven't changed through the eons behind us

But we will if we take responsibility

Admitting to our earlier forgotten actions

Let's detach ourselves from what we seem to be

And I want you to swallow

Your insane denial fast

That your predicament was caused

By others in some distant past

More universes ago than we care to remember

Lies the insidious source of that misty notion

The vague hunch we somehow get when current events

Lightly spark the glow of a smoldering ember

When inventions that sail in on intuition

Don't appear an innovation bright and true

We are simply treading down the rut of many ages

Deep inside we know - we know: it's nothing new