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Tangled up in the wires

Strewn underground

Daylight expires

Electric pulses all around

It seems the curtain falls

On the lives we have known

The windows turned to walls

The voice, a dial tone

Let's reinforce our positions

Before we're too old to speak

Let's rehearse our missions

Until the day is cold and weak

And I don't have the answer

The courage that you seek

The flag to take a chance for

The odds, they seem so weak

It's an overcoming landslide

That makes us fall apart

And wandering won't save us

But it will give strength of heart

In the stream I saw it

Something I couldn't speak to

Something so alone

Something completely new

Connected by a quarter inch

Wires and hearts together

Falling apart whenever

Only at your leisure

Let's reinforce our positions

Before we're too old to speak

Let's rehearse our missions

Until the day is cold and weak

And I still don't remember

The day you figured out

That everything we fought for

Stood on pillars of doubt

It was a gale force wind of hatred

That tore us apart

And I spiraled incessantly

Until running gave a start

And I don't have the answer

The courage that you seek

The flag to take a chance for

The odds, they seem so weak

It's an overcoming landslide

That makes us fall apart

And wandering won't save us

But it will give strength of heart