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If you’re alone must be the hardest of things With only four walls to hold you in Alone, nobody sticking like glue, tending your light, tending to you. No one to laugh at your jokes, be scared of your ghosts, pick you up when you’re broken, speak the unspoken Listen at night when your dreams running riot, and the ways of the world make you wonder The screen is permaglow no fireflies hovering The door is always closed no one is bothering Now we’re slaves to the system a machine that won’t slow Issued a number and ready to roll Camera is all seeing, there’s no sense in believing George Orwell was right, we had to wait a bit longer Till the lassoo was stronger Now it’s filament fine like a Clare Valley wine You can’t see it but it’s tougher than a piece of fence wire The line between a full life and terminal decline is filled out by the passengers We’re just marking time It’s said no ones’ an island, nor in meant to be Staring at the night sky what’s become of me The screen is permaglow no fireflies hovering The door is always closed no one is bothering God of the schoolyard shut out by the noise Last rites and the feasting, men acting like boys Tossed around by a whirlpool of envy and rage Is this how homo sapiens remember their days? Aus Songtexte Mania