Wheel

Our resolve is close to breaking under your watchful eye

All that's left is a prevailing sense of social apathy

It wasn't like you said

We're powerless and unable to alter our direction

Slipping down, directly in to the bottom of a hole

Is it any surprise we're losing patience

While you chase another elusive enemy?

While our fear is amplified

Another culture demonised

It only serves to catalyse

This burning desire for isolation

Or is that what you wanted from the start?

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes to the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Why don't you shut up and give me the medicine?

Suck it up and give us a reason

Why this failed initiative

Gives you the right to listen in

I feel empty

There's nowhere left to hide

I need someone to appease my conscience

Will the end justify the means?

Where there was dissent, there is only silence

We're all just cogs in a grand machine

Just like back in '84

There are eyes on every wall

It might be time to learn to crawl

When privacy becomes a product to be traded for another

Product to be traded for another

Product to be traded for another

Product to be traded for another

They know everything about you

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes to the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Why don't you shut up and give me the medicine?

Suck it up and give us a reason

Let's burn down the figure head

I'm losing my mind, it never seems to end

On the periphery

The shadows start to fall

They're moving surreptitiously

Or am I getting paranoid

When did we lose our way?

There's nothing left to say

I'm ready for a change

Shut up and give me the medicine

Blind my eyes to the sight of it

I just want to feel numb again

And wait for this to pass

Shut up and give me the medicine?

Suck it up and give us a reason

Nobody mourned our innocence

And none of us buy that we are any safer