Living for the future Like you're living for the night Patterns in the distance Give them some resistance Autobiographic democratic lullaby Nothing ever matters If you never even try Fighting for the present Like you're fighting for the right Simulated violence Punishing the silence Medicated by burning traces in the sky Nothing ever happens If you never even try Now sleep begins to settle slowly over miles of tired eyes And my fingers all on fire Like the flames they do conspire To rise up, control, illuminate, rejoice, rejoin, rejuvenate Supplant, avoid and suffocate Elevate your mind, tonight Some paradoxic union will survive If only I could realize Well can you see this (.) fall (.) this forever Got to seize the day whichever Satisfied and memorized Still one moment you break and tyrannical One next, escape you get to realize