Coming down In a place unfamiliar Coming down Where I’m a stranger to you ‘Cause you don’t recognise me anymore There’s a sign on up ahead But I can’t work out what it says And I feel like an alien Falling through outer space Being forced to move on again Always being displaced On a planet full of robots And I’ve used up all my fuel Without ever leaving home Coming down Where no-one’s any wiser Coming down Made to feel like an outsider ‘Cause you know where fear it often hides There’s a place that’s safe for me But it’s always out of reach And I feel like an alien Falling through outer space Being forced to move on again Always being displaced On a planet of machines And I’ve used up all my fuel Without ever leaving home Here we are at last Where we’ve weaponised our words With the hidden meanings that echo ages past And stretched across the sky Where we’re all just setting suns And the light is fading But we never question why Coming down To a broken future Coming down From a state of euphoria ‘Cause you heard the lies but still believed There’s a yearning for what we think we miss But no good will come from this And I feel like an alien Falling through outer space Being forced to move on again Always being displaced On a planet full of robots And I’ve used up all my fuel Without ever leaving home Without ever leaving home

Living in a world of make-believe Left behind by technology It’s meant to leave us cold ‘Cause we’re not meant to know Who wishes for a world Where there’s never any doubt Who wishes for a world Where they’ll never be called out They imagine a silence that exists inside our minds Believing every single lie we’re told Resigned and given up questioning Obediently sleepwalking Complicit in our own deceit Revelling in our own defeat But we think it’s all right When they pander to the hate we like Don’t you realise That we’ll never join their crowd? Don’t you realise That we’ll never be allowed? They imagine a silence that exists inside our minds Believing every single lie we’re told Resigned and given up questioning Obediently sleepwalking Chasing our losses on a vague half-chance Hoping for a change in circumstance Convinced its just around the next bend Convinced that we’ll get rich in the end They don’t need to care And they’re laughing while they lie They don’t need to care As they party while we die They imagine a silence that exists inside our minds Believing every single lie we’re told Resigned and given up questioning But we’re not even sleepwalking

We hide ourselves away For our own protection We steel ourselves against The ache of staring down our fears So you hate how you feel And you wish that you were numb Just like everyone else does You wish the world away ‘Cause you hate feeling wrong But doesn’t everyone? We protect ourselves against the trauma Locked within ourselves Deep down But can’t make it go away So you hate how you feel And you wish that you were numb Just like everyone else does You wish the world away ‘Cause you hate feeling wrong But doesn’t everyone? We hold ourselves In such low regard We surprise ourselves Again With our capacity for pain So you hate how you feel And you wish that you were numb Just like everyone else does You wish the world away ‘Cause you hate feeling wrong But doesn’t everyone? So you hate how you feel And you wish that you were numb Just like everyone else does You wish the world away ‘Cause you hate feeling wrong But doesn’t everyone? Doesn’t everyone?

The past it presses on your memory again You try to forget but the impressions remain You try to act normal but it’s just not the same 'Cause once you’ve seen the sun you can’t go back to the grey Forced to let go of the world you knew Now there’s nothing left to hold on to You can’t ignore it when you know something’s wrong Because the bottle is empty and the genie is gone It’s like the past never knew That the future’s coming But there were signs, there were signals And enough fair warning Of all the things I wish I could prevent Was always feeling stuck in the present Maybe I’m impatient for tomorrow to be today Man-child wants to be “King of the World” And the right connections made it work Forced into submission it’s their right to rule So keep those lies coming, keep the people fooled It’s like the past never knew That the future’s coming But there were signs, there were signals And enough fair warning Of all the lies that you chose to believe Was thinking you weren’t being deceived Maybe you were told that tomorrow was out of reach Bottle opposition and label it fear But it’s happening now and it’s happening here What will you do with the lies you were taught When it turns out worse than you ever thought? There’s a future here if you want there to be Take back control, take back the streets It’s not the future you dream of, it’s the future you make Because nothing ever comes to those who wait It’s like the past never knew That the future’s coming But there were signs, there were signals And enough fair warning Of all the things I can’t believe Is your refusal to accept you’re so naive Maybe you think that tomorrow will never come It’s like the past never knew That the future’s coming But there were signs, there were signals And enough fair warning Of all the things I wish I could prevent Was always feeling stuck in the present Maybe I’m impatient for tomorrow to be today

Open my eyes to the world And everything comes flooding in I feel like I’m losing control It doesn’t seem to matter what I do or say Even as the day begins Before my feet touch the ground I feel a shadow fall It seeps between the cracks of the everyday When the panic sets in To cover up my mind Letting loose those feelings Buried a lifetime ago It fills up the idle time Catching glimpses in between To let me know it still cuts like a knife It doesn’t seem affected by the wisdom of age It’s haunting through out the night And stalking throughout the day It’s watching from the wings Just waiting for a chance to take centre stage I couldn’t stop myself from being overwhelmed It’s not as if I didn’t try Never again I lied to myself I could have guessed that the end of hope was lonely What else did I expect to find? Never again I lied to myself When the panic sets in To cover up my mind Letting loose those feelings Buried a lifetime ago With the shadows descending I’m a danger to myself Can’t cope again But can’t let anyone know To cover up my mind I’m a danger to myself

Maybe it’s nothing to you But it’s everything to me When you feel like you’re invisible You just want someone to see Withdrawing from the real world ‘Cause everything’s wrapped in fear When you feel like you’re kept quiet You just want someone to hear This is what it feels like to never be seen or heard Made to feel like you don’t exist And this is what it feels like When no-one understands your words Always on the outside looking in I know I’ve come a long way From where i used to be I had to search to find my voice ‘Cause no-one spoke for me Knowing where i started Knowing I have grown I had no platform so I had to build my own Have we had enough of progress Falling back to our old ways? Doomed to repeat our mistakes once more Going back to the bad old days Everyone grows up some time But was it too big a task? Living with the rest of the world Is getting on too much to ask? It took so long to get here Just to be forced back That’s no path to walk again That broken ruined track Wishing to see the future Dragged back to an imagined past But the ones who act like they won something Don’t want to hear that they have finished last Everything sounds like machines Slowly falling apart Everything is breaking down And we’re worse off than we were at the start It’s said you can’t go back in time But here we are again How did we make such a big mistake? Don’t you know how this all ends?

Wake up the party’s over Each day getting older It’s time to make your way It’s time to face the day A million tired excuses Are no reason for holding back Wake up the party’s over Each night getting colder It’s time to make it happen It’s time to take some action A million wasted chances Are lost opportunities Why wait for the world to change? Why wait for a better day? Take all the pieces in your hands And make them all collide With all the ideas that you have And all your strengths combined Wake up the party’s over Each try getting bolder It’s time to make it vital It’s time to break the cycle A million empty judgements Are never gonna count Why wait for the world to change? Why wait for a better day? Take all the pieces in your hands And make them all collide With all the ideas that you have And all your strengths combined Got to try to find the right words So they understand the message loud and clear Got to find the right words To make a stand and speak out so they might hear It’s hard sometimes to make decisions Too many offers of shallow opinions With strings attached and too many conditions And one too many contradictions It’s hard to get past all the distractions And all the spiteful knee-jerk reactions The deafening silence of inaction The blinding fragments of the splintered factions But these are just obstacles To smash and overcome Why wait for the world to change? Why wait for a better day? Why wait for the world to change? Why wait for a better day? Take all the pieces in your hands And make them all collide With all the ideas that you have And all your strengths combined

Everybody’s bleeding To various degrees Trying so hard to treat their wounds But it’s not always plain to see And if you don’t know where to turn You’ll find you’re strength Right next to your scars No-one comes away without a tale to tell Some might not be able To show you where they fell But everyone who picks themselves up Leaves behind mistakes To fade into the past But when tomorrow comes Will you be standing strong? And when tomorrow comes Will you be brave enough to be wrong? And when tomorrow comes Will you have something to say? Or when tomorrow comes Will you still be blaming yesterday? Everyone knows self doubt Has more than one disguise It’s well-worked charms and comforts Make it so hard to recognise So if you find out you’ve been had Give yourself a break You owe yourself that much But when tomorrow comes Will you be standing strong? And when tomorrow comes Will you be brave enough to be wrong? And when tomorrow comes Will you have something to say? Or when tomorrow comes Will you still be blaming yesterday? It always seems to take some time To speak without regret Then the days you try to remember Are the ones you tried to forget You ask yourself “what happens next?” But the future is never clear You thought that you had cause and grounds But now you know it’s just the weight of your fear But when tomorrow comes Will you be standing strong? And when tomorrow comes Will you be brave enough to be wrong? And when tomorrow comes Will you have something to say? Or when tomorrow comes Will you still be blaming yesterday?

We came into the millennium On a wave of technology The tech got smart but we got dumb In a cult of personality Favoured sons too big to fail There was more gold to be found But dirty hands demanded bail When the whole thing came crashing down Living in the twenties Of the twenty-first century We’re not looking to the future Just repeating history Running in circles Because we never listened at all Everybody’s lost their minds In a scared new world Along came a virus And sat down inside us And broke all of our routines Everything we took for granted Was locked down and quarantined As the press distract and vilify And We lap up what they preach All of our rights get eroded away In fascist overreach Living in the twenties Of the twenty-first century We’re not looking to the future Just repeating history Running in circles Because we never listened at all Everybody’s lost their minds In a scared new world Loud opinions of the ignorant Replaced the words of the wise When everyone knows everything There’s no need for advice Giving in to superstition Stooping to conspiracy In a post-truth world It’s not what you prove But what you make people believe Living in the twenties Of the twenty-first century We’re not looking to the future Just repeating history Running in circles Because we never listened at all Everybody’s lost their minds In a scared new world

Each of us has to come to terms That everything’s certain in a clockwork universe So as a child I was given a pet To teach me love Always ends in death I used to think that I was cursed To never knowing in a quantum universe She said you’ll run away to someone else But wherever you go You’ll never escape yourself But I know Ii was a terrible lesson to learn A brush with death pulling at your nerves A passing note in a silent universe You used to think it was just bad dreams But self-defence Was suppressing your memories Well I know it was a terrible lesson to learn How would you feel if our roles were reversed? Could you make sense of a meaningless universe? How would you deal with the constant dread And ever-present doubt That maybe you’re better off dead? Well I know it was a terrible lesson to learn Always searching for the meaning of what’s missing inside Always wanting to be seen whilst still trying to hide Never knowing that the truth was buried deep in the mind Never fixing what’s still broken ‘cause it’s all in denial Still broken Don’t always get what we deserve All alone in an endless universe Making maps of the tales we tell Never moving on Just drawing parallels Well I know It was a terrible lesson to learn It feels as if your heart will burst Losing touch in an expanding universe There’s a feeling deep within ourselves Of everything moving Away from everything else Well I know it was a terrible lesson to learn Always searching for the meaning of what’s missing inside Always wanting to be seen whilst still trying to hide Never knowing that the truth was buried deep in the mind Never fixing what’s still broken ‘cause it’s all in denial Still broken Maybe there are few things worse Than being trapped in a shrinking universe And we’re forced to face our fears When we ask ourselves “Where do we go from here?” Well I know It was a terrible lesson to learn It seems it’s up to us to coerce Compassion from an indifferent universe And even on our darkest day With no guiding light We’ve still got to find a way Well I know it was the very last lesson to learn Though it seems like every victory still feels like defeat Though the fear of being found out makes you want to retreat Need to speak and let it out and recognise and reveal Need to find out what’s still broken and a way to heal Always searching for the meaning of what’s missing inside Always wanting to be seen whilst still trying to hide Never knowing that the truth was buried deep in the mind Never fixing what’s still broken ‘cause it’s all in denial Still broken Somewhere inside Still broken