Backwash Lyrics

How can you stand yourself when you've got no spine

This isn't infinite growth

It's the end of a crumbling road

No exceptions to the rule

This is how it always was

Is it how it always will be?

Trickle down

Settle down

Going down, we're going down

Crushed under an ever-lowering glass ceiling

Don't bite the hand that feeds

Until it's gripped around your neck

Living so unsustainably

Expected to be thankful as we drink down your backwash

If we can't be used we'll be trampled underfoot

I'm tired of the talk just give it to me straight

Your lack of honesty has cost the life of another

You are a quisling, conscious enabler

All of the power

None of the will

Green paint smeared on the walls fades

Exposing the grey beneath

Seeing everything

Sharing nothing

Softening the words of the cruel

Everything's ruined

The world's collapsing down the middle

Flaying the skin from the truth's back

Sandblasting the writing on the wall

It's all water under the bridge

But the river has burst its banks

I'm lying on a table clinging onto life

You're lying to my face saying it'll all be fine

Tell me how can you stand yourself when you've got no spine