The Grasshopper Lies Heavy Lyrics

"I can feel the breakdown is coming"

She says pacing back n forth back n forth

When she slips through the cracks into a parallel dual reality

A mitosis of the mind

A part of her here

A part of her there

I follow

(Something quite sinister at work here)

While the rest of us are stuck in some catatonic liminal orgy

The dancing shadows mimicking the grotesque theatre of their counterparts

(I'm not quite sure where this is going)

It's become quite clear we've overstayed our welcome

The shadow and their summoners trade places.

A violent cerebral episode ensues…

(Something uncanny in the way she moves)

You really lost it this time

Lost it this time, yeah

This is not the world you used to know

And as the bodies thrash against the walls and piss-soaked carpet

In the spasms of their dying

I hear as they let out their exaltations of flickering joy

Hunter seeker needle jamming into anything that resembles virgin flesh

Weapons of love and war

Everybody here has embraced the bomb a thousand times over

Take the cash and let the credit go

A penny for a lifetime

A pill for your thoughts?

And a wishing well where all the money goes

(and it goes..)

In this Lovecraftian hellscape,

She holds herself together with the composure of a distant star

(and it goes..)

Always exploding,

(and it goes..)

Only held together by the gravity in it's center

But the breakdown is coming

If you don't like this world

You should see the others

If you don't like this world

You should see the others

If you don't like this world

You should see the others

If you don't like this world

You should see the others

You should see the others

You should see the others..

You really lost it this time

Lost it this time, yeah

This is not the world you used to know

Come back to earth

Come back to earth

The breakdown is coming

It's just around the corner

Can you feel it?

Can you feel it now?

We're just waiting for the other shoe to drop

But who are we kidding ourselves

It's already here

It's upon us

Like a rapture

Hosanna!

We shall be seized from these mortal vessels

We'll leave these human suits behind

Just you and I

You and I

We shall be whole again

As if nothing had ever changed

The gift of another chance

But how many did we take in vain?

You really lost it this time

Lost it this time, yeah

This is not the world you used to know

Come back to earth

Come back to earth

You really lost it this time

Lost it this time, yeah

When you come crashing back down

Let the earth embrace your bones

Brutish things bellow in this dark underbelly

I think we both know how this one ends

The same tricks that we use to discern madness from mystics

The writings on the wall

But no one has the answers