Startled by the Obvious - Babyland

If we’re all going to drown

Then it could be today

But I can’t promise anything

As it all crashes down

Please

Let me feel this way forever

Stuck here, forever

With the end drawing near

We’re still making lists

Still filling up

Still marking down all

To keep track of our emptiness

Held high

Keep me high

Get me to the finish line

To rest for the rest of everything

This is how it happens

This is how it slips away

This is how the compromise

Becomes a way of life

Too much to see

Too much to taste

Too much disease

Too much to face

Too much decline

Too much mistake

Too much undone

Too much at stake

Too much the same

Too much to hide

Too much too late

Too many seconds slipping by

Too many systems gone awry

The easy out

I want it all and I want it now

This is how it happens

This is how it slips away

This is how the compromise

Becomes a way of life

Couldn’t you see it?

It was shoved in your face

The answers are waiting

They finally came

A product of fear

But the product failed

Startled by the obvious

Not a moment to spare