Has It Always Been This Way? Lyrics

Now it's time to clear out

Take out of my belongings

Bring in the machines that will do my work for me

And make coffee for me

Like I used to do, but uh I don't do anymore

Now that my job was taken by fresh out of the showroom machines

And my mind is occupied by foreign lies

But my mind's a secret spy alone in time

But my mind watches robots as they multiply

But my mind

My mind is occupied by something new

But my mind is nothing like that

I wish that I could turn back time

To pull the plug on all this before it started

And I know that that's impossible, stop telling me it's impossible

It's merely a hypothetical

And I am looking at the hours of paperwork

That I did with emotion

And I am staring at this hourglass

I am not the guy that I used to be

My work has been stripped from me

My knowledge has been stripped from me

Look to the skies, it reads:

My mind is occupied by robots that do my job better then I could

But they're stronger

But my mind is occupied by a man named me

But my mind is something that is no longer needed

But my mind is nothing like that

My mind is nothing like that

Has it always been this way?

As we watch it and see it fade?

And the society we built is gone as we know it

Has it always been this way? (And my mind is occupied by foreign lies)

As we watch it and see it fade? (But my mind is a secret spy alone in time)

As I'm ripped out of my chair (But my mind watches robots as they multiply)

And taken to a place (But my mind is occupied by something new)

Where I'm no longer needed (But I think I'm better than that)

But has it always been this way? (And my mind is occupied by foreign lies)

As we watch it and see it fade? (But my mind is a secret spy alone in time)

Has it always been this way? (But my mind watches robots as they multiply)

As we watch it and see it fade? (But I think I'm better than that)