Slipping through these shallow days Hide your face, disguise your gaze Suit yourself to new deceit Your borrowed lines are incomplete Just a call sign, just a shadow Adjust the lens, align your torso From vacant streets, you watch them wate Watch them stare, watch them race Moveing under hallowed judgment Remove the base, destroy the contents Shards of mirror and shards of glass Outer darkness, overcast Coming into fallacy You're done, you rise up slowly Wiping pain from tired eyes No tears flow, you're mesmerized Lying flat staring at the ceiling Watch your breath, slow your breathing Note the time, records pale figures Scratch your itch, regain your vigor Dismanteling set diagrams Setting forth a new program Slipping through these shallow days Hide your face, disguise your gaze Losing meaning to assignment Losing ground in a war climate Losing sight to heightened states Losing purpose to decided fate