the i v drips the days drag on the anesthetics now wearing off adjust the light switch in the hall this is the end these are the last days these are the last days now take our hands in a roll of red tape genetic information strands are tighter than trip wires and we awake in the light of other lives this can t be happening these sirens are for me yeah so what happened to the hospital to cut the cost of collected health dying in the shadow of the hospital we got the city in our blood and it s making us sick but you stay alive until their blood fills up your wallet blazing up the sky these are the last days these are the last days where we all wake where we all wake the i v drips the days drag on the anesthetics now wearing off adjust the light switch in the hall someone has left it on and maybe the x ray screen keeps it from getting dark the bulb burns out when it gets too hot are we just a blink in the eyes of a pulse machine it s lightning divorcing the storm try to shut it off codeine catch the windows latched and the clock keeps circling the room tick tock we lost control in white outs followed magnetic fields to the fire out of control we fight currents in the water we can t let go to shore we lost control