Earth Confidential
I readily admit
That I’m the biggest of hypocrites
To the words I think are most probably true
And, in my most wide eyed
My most puppy dog of views
How it does break my heart in two
That I cannot seem to follow them
In the fog of human transactions
Oh, the endless distractions
The fear, the pain and the lies
The lust, the backstabbing, and the tries
For power and control
The same part of me shuts down
Everyone has a heart
Oh, and every heart has a place within it
That only wants to love
And be loved by everyone
Every soul, oh, every precious soul
Is trapped in some insidious device
So willing to pay the price for love
But there don’t seem no one to pay
So we let it drone on this way
I look out across the borderland
And I see them standing there
But all I see is their distortions
And distortions are so hard to care about
Because you don’t know what’s hiding behind
Maybe someone so infected, someone so blind
That they’ll stick the knife in and twist it
Use you up and throw you away
Undermine you for nothing more
Than better position, a better mate, or better pay… yeah
There’s sharks in the water, baby
Sharks in the water
How can you be expected to be a puppy-dog and last?
I walk through this life
In autopilot mode
Operating on defenses
In numbness overload
Seeing what’s presented
Presenting what is seen
Trying to see past the monster in them
And mitigate the monster in me
I run with my allies
Till they do me wrong
And then I hold my grudges
So deep and so long
Reserving venom for them
Like I might with a dictator
Who’s betrayed all mankind
Though I know even they
Have just been made blind
An inner puppy-dog
Buried alive
I stand in front of my glass house
Throwing stones
As they stand in front of theirs
Throwing stones at mine
Oh god, it’s so hard to operate in real time
With the premise that I know is true
Everyone has a heart
Oh, and every heart has a place within it
That only wants to love
And be loved by everyone
Every soul, oh, every precious soul
Is trapped in that insidious device
So willing to pay the price for connection
But there don’t seem no way to pay
So we let it drone on this way
All screaming in a bell Jar
Oxygen sucked out
Forgetting there was ever any
At the start
Forgetting everyone
Still has a heart
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