Heartbeat - Mekong Delta

In the shadow of our industry

We constructed all these big machines

Symbolizing what we want to be

Superpowers of insanity

Accepting all of this bureaucracy

Content to be another wannabe

Obscured by all of this complexity

Consumed as fuel for even bigger dreams

Little voices saying please sign here

You know these children are too young my dear

And the endless sound of moving parts

Replaced the rhythm of their strained hearts

While the wheels continue turning

We still believe in sold out learning

In the center are these blinded eyes

Masked by a melted fire out of ice

Answers finally came to me

Inside a plastic strawberry

Creeping through your cancered skin

Remember that your life is a sin

Lost like a heartbeat

We will never hear

Caught by the house of coldness

We all fear

And in our blindness we can’t see

The ghost of all we used to be

In the daylight of our destiny

Swimming in reflected vanity

So you smoke another cigarette

One more thing in life that you’ll regret

While the wheels continue turning

We still believe in sold out learning

In the center are these blinded eyes

Masked by a melted fire out of ice

Lost like a heartbeat

We will never hear

Caught by the house of coldness

We all fear

And in our blindness we can’t see

The ghost of all we used to be