Expired - Tony Sly

Our pockets are empty

The signal is lost

Too many low times

At such a high cost

Suddenly walking

No destination plan

The will so hard to hold

Slips out of our hands

To much conversation

We’re losing our voice

It’s justification

For lack of a choice

The penniless preacher

The king of the hill

Expired prescription

That we couldn’t fill

The trigger is so soft

And easy to squeeze

A miscalculation

Missed enormously

A fruitless ambition

It would appear

I know a place that sells pride

Not far from here

An aborted mission

That couldn’t be saved

Awards for submission

So nicely engraved

So perfect the world is

Without any view

The smallest of hope is

The biggest excuse

Suddenly a change

On expired time

Of an empty thought

Systematic flaw

In an open wound

That nobody saw

Suddenly a change

On expired time

Of an empty thought

Systematic flaw

In an open wound

That nobody saw

(You're not just telling us what we want to hear?)

(No sir, no way.)

(We came here to hear the truth.)

(Then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear.)

(Boy, didn’t we just tell you not to do that?)

(Yes, sir.)

(Okay, then.)