Something Heartless Lyrics

Sewing up the eye

Of my moral dignity

Less an immunity

More a reflex

Too much to think about today

Maybe in a week

I'll gamble my heart again

Getting less out of it

Than I put in

And nothing's really changed

Close my eyes, play my part

I don't have the heart to lend a hand right now

You can ignore it

If you can afford it

The innocence that I had

The unskippable advertisement tells me how

Life here is gorgeous

Life here is precious

Life here rewards us

Forget the rest

Couldn't I have been

Something more feasible

Something more lucrative

Something heartless

And play the vicious game?

Instead I'm writhing in a web

Woven by moneymen

Paid by my government

And at present

I'm shrugging off the shame

Close my eyes, wash me clean

Pitcher plant martinis find me solace now

I can ignore it

While I can afford it

The innocence that I had

The unskippable advertisement tells me how

Life here is gorgeous

Life here is precious

Life here is forfeit

For all the rest