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Running short on imagination

 Still we waste it all on words

Spoken without the benefit of our minds

The candle burns the edges fray

Our best intentions waste away

And everybody loves the things we've done

And on and on and on

Life appears weightless

 For everyone but me

 This world grows heavier everyday

Deterioration

 Growing old before my time

 Nobody cares never mind

We all prey on our vain condition

 And the hopelessness of it all

These days there's nothing we can trust

The dreams we made we've seen them fade

Trampled by out sad parade

Yet we're so pleased with what we've done

And on and on and I'm done

Life appears weightless

 For everyone but me

 This world grows heavier everyday

Deterioration

 Growing old before my time

 Nobody cares

The mind breaks down when it dies

 Our machines doubled in size

 To orchestrate the grand collapse

 I see us all trapped in its path

 There was a time we were unbound

 As if we'd never hit the ground

 But just like rain we can't keep from falling