wake up in the city today
id like to see a brighter day
time to take another breath again
and id like to give it away

id like to get to know you
but you walk right past again
and id like to see where youre going
but ive got to go my own way

and you could hurt me
but it wouldnt matter at all
im just a parasite in smog paradise
who is definitely bound to fall

ive got nothing left but these broken pieces
of which i must put together
but i leave them on the floor
for this involuntary life is hardly a life
and for my pieces i say never

so i wake up with pain,
and death is on my soul
and id like to see the rain
so we are pure again

with the winter on its way
we can feel its coldness
everything bright,
drowning in its falsehood

and id like to see you cry
so i can tell you it will be alright
but maybe i'd be lying
for you and me are doomed to see
the fate of our importance

so take this pain and create with it,
all the people that never could
all the streets that are alive
with these empty lives
and id like to make my mark

be human for today
and feel the love
escaping through these gutters
for you and i are sadly seen
as machines to serve a purpose