i got a sweet tooth sunk in a soft spot that busts my jaw loose and makes my mouth rot i caught a bad break the same one you caught that turned your hair white and choked your breath off i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i found gossip in the ivy that s been swallowing my house and i found bones in the foundation that i m just picking out now i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i got a fistful of shattered seashells that scream like soldiers stuck down an oil well and i saw a bad sign lit up like broadway and i watched my head spin and i heard my voice shake i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb so i found trouble in the ghost town that i ve been building with my hands but i found comfort in the snowstorm that i ve been piling on my past so i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i m buried by the buzz of a year gone numb i see symptoms of a sickness in every stranger on the street and i see danger in the distances speeding straight for you and me i m buried by the buzz i m buried by the buzz i m buried by the buzz of a year gone  i quit the carnival it moved next door i thought i had enough but i want more so now i m sneaking out at night i paint my face and shine my shoes go where i m not supposed to cause i tamed a lion once i stole his roar i stripped his pride away but he found more so now he s back to take what s his and shove my future in my face scare me back in my place so soon so soon you ve got it beat til it beats you i left my flaming sword beside your bed i woke to find it pressed against my neck you wept suggestion never works so now i m trying something else i shut my eyes ho hum oh well i felt a feather fall a tree trunk split inside my lion laughed played violin he said hey you should give up on your voice before we both end up destroyed i quit alright he purred good boy so you believe anything and we went and copped you fall for anyone i said n n n n no see that s not exactly true i only fell for you i d do whatever you asked me to you wake in the hospital you re in a thrift store suit hear your lover s voice from the waiting room so you shut your eyes and then you pray for peace you think that i m not here you think that is not me is is it something that i would do see i kn kn kn kn kn kn know the complicated truth was a make up mask and then a lion s roar a big top tent a firey sword but they re not real they never were and soon she won t be real either this is the life you went and earned because you never fucking learn and you could waste all of your years fixing the mess you re making here so as her nervous breath draws close her dress heels click off their approach you clutch your chest you whisper out no no what will i doooooo my love my love you say what will i do you say what will i do you ll wake up just wake up uh whoah oh oh oh uh whoah uh oh oh uh whoah oh oh oh uh whoah uh oh oh no no no oh no no no you say to leave me here don t leave me here don t go oh don t go oh oh oh oh oh no no no it s a brushfire spreading feeding as it moves it s a disappeared glacier it s an airborne flu it s your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles it s your yawning conscious and your lawyer s smile it s an occupied country foaming at the mouth no smoking gun no mushroom cloud a military mother with a boy in hell and it s a flag draped casket down an oil well it s an argentine school girl gagged and bound it s a torture camp it s a long way down it s the constant bracing shock of now it s the whole damn world turned inside out all right it s not too hard to see if you wake up and open your eyes it s a march to extinction with your god in step it s his name in your mouth it s his cross on your neck farm boy sprinting over desert dirt and he s panting the our father in staccato spurts now that s his automatic rifle and it tells no lies that s his truth in your stomach it s no alibi but the trouble lies on the other side with an equal truth prepping for his holy night he sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky he hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife as he eases to the check point he is calm and sure it s collateral damage it s the cost of war it s another bag of bones for the gods to sort it s another bag of bones for the gods to step up and sort it s the species disappearing all the birds fly south a january heat wave and a pulsing crowd it s an african militia kids with submachines it s a conflict diamond on your bride to be it s the dispossessed lining up at every gate it s the facts worth facing faced way too late it s the mission of modernity go get what s yours til there s nothing leftover to get no more it s not what were owed but it s what we ve earned it s closer than we realized that it s time now to burn oh it s time now to burn oh and it s time now to burn oh and it s time now to burn to burn 