Sealed the lid on tight

With us inside

Crank up the heat

It's just a matter of time

Irritated particles

We race faster and faster

Colliding much harder

Tiny explosions

Frustration ripens to rage

Screaming, kicking,

Fighting as we go,

Oh no, Oh no,

It's about to blow!

In what do we trust?

He crossed the street

Just before my bumper

Does he trust my brakes?

My sanity, the mechanic?

New York State inspections?

Or maybe laws

And the fear of punishment

Attached as consequences?

 The human instinct

To not take another life?

The hard working American's

Who assembled my car?

The harder working, underpaid

Souls manufacturing the parts abroad?

Their compulsory fear of

Making a mistake and losing their job?

Or some magical divine force field,

Protection from above?

You take your first hit

You get high

You like it

You don't really need it again

But it felt good

And maybe right now you feel bad

So you hit it again

Get what you're looking for

That buzz that’s drones out

The voices in your head

The people who love you

See you changing, transforming

Your friends,

(you know, the ones who you get high with…

But really that's all you have in common…)

They say it's fine and pass you the joint

You hit it because you know it's easy

Easier than life, easier than emotions

And so you become the other type of drone

You are flat, starving for affect,

Dying to feel something in your apathy

But nothing breaks through

So you get high, again.

You see the way out

But it seems so impossible to reach

Just say no

Just find something else

The natural high

High on life

Easy philosophy

Tough consistency

How do you break

This addiction 

This spell

That has you trapped

How do you breathe

When this smoke

Fills your lungs

Grind your teeth

Try to sleep

Ignore the anxiety

Overlook the scarcity

When you take it away

I've got nothing left

Making it damn hard

To just say no

You feel like

A million miles away

On a far away planet

Where I can't see

Out of my arms

Absent from my heart

The cold universe

Between us as we sleep

And I can't touch

Your skin

And I can't feel

Your soul

Eternity frozen

In the balance of

Time and space