For Whose Entertainment? Lyrics

Well start me up

Run it again

I'm not a puppet

But somedays I feel the tug of a hand

I can't move where I choose

I get used on demand

As a part in a production that I do not understand

I get caught

Spinning out

Knuckles lily white

Didn't buy a ticket

Still I'm sitting on the ride

Sick from the physics

And its limits on my life

And they tell me it's a privilege

I'm like

Is it

Oh alright

This simulation

Seems so real

It makes me shake

And I can't take a break

I need stimulation

To make me feel

Like I'm fully awake

As I loop through my days

For whose entertainment

And who's got my payment

For these showbiz days

Watch me

Watch me

Watch me

Watch me do my new trick

I can leave my body

While my body's going through it

Going through the motions

While I'm seeming fairly lucid

I don't dream of labor

But a dream might get me through it

Floating away

Going places

While my body pays the cost of its age

All on screen

Somewhere streaming at impossible rates

Another product of the process

Generating these infinite variations

This simulation

Seems so real

It makes me shake

And I can't take a break

I need stimulation

To make me feel

Like I'm fully awake

As I loop through my days

For whose entertainment

And who's got my payment

For these showbiz days

Look

I'm so tired

Of this type of place

Must be how I'm wired

There must be some mistake

Near Alpha Centauri

Maybe they toy with fate

They watch as we go round

But cannot relate

They cannot relate

No they cannot relate

They watch as we go round

We cannot escape