Consumption City

歌詞

A forest of glass and steel, a flood of neon light Emotionless faces drown in the asphalt of the night At the scramble crossing, no one meets an eye In a river named "Efficiency," we are just swept by Numbed by the anesthesia they call "convenience," The digital signs whisper that only success is righteous From towers built on ads that cheapen all our dreams The light inside our eyes is drained out by the gleam Oh, this is the great Consumption City It feeds on love and tears to make the skyline burn We are the fuel, a nameless, raw energy For tomorrow to move on, today is turned to ash and churn Hauled just like parts, shaken on a crowded train Our worth becomes the numbers glowing on a screen Connected by a click, then cut off by a tap in the rain Before we knew, our hearts became another disposable scene Oh, this is the great Consumption City Devouring hope and prayer, where only greed runs free We are the cogs, and to stop moving is a sin The present's ground to dust for a future we're not in These skyscraper lights, by whose life do they glow? This pavement's perfect smoothness, on whose bones does it grow? We gave our all for the illusion, for prosperity's grand show And the freedom that we gained... is it just an empty void to know? The siren of the dawn The city takes another deep, slow breath and carries on Though we are wrung completely dry It squeezes us for more beneath the sky Consumption City Quietly Its pulse beats on