Lyrics Ten Thousand Lines - Electric President

Ten Thousand Lines

We paint the future from this bedroom
With lots of progress;
cold and heartless
And nothing lives, just twitches and moves
It’s all synthetic, but it’s all we’ve got
Thousands of wires
Spread through the halls
Thousands of eyes
Live in our walls
And now they can see just what we’ve done, oh no
Now they can see what we’ve become
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
Ba-dum, ba-dum-bum
No sun, just radiation here
Get it by the lungful
No time, no way to count the years
Except by creaking sounds in your bones
(Whoa, whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa!) (Ah!)
(No, no no! No no!) (NO!) (Whoa, no no!)
(AUGH) (Aah!) (No no no, no)
(AUGH! No no, no) (NO!)
(God dammit)
They’ve got your name, they’ve got your number
They’ve got your hopes, your dreams, your future
They’ve got your loved ones by the throat
And soon enough they’ll let you know
And I’ve learned enough to keep my mouth shut (We've though too much;
said nothing)
I’ve learned enough to watch my back (We've heard it all; there’s nothing new)
And I’ve learned enough to become wallpaper (We've seen the way to our undoing)
And blend in with the cracks (And the way to yours as well)
Ten thousand lines run from our minds
And ten thousand plans spread from our hands
And now we can see just what we’ve done, oh no
And now we can see what we’ve become, oh no
And now we can see just where we stand