Akacia - An Other Life lyrics

It's the dawn Of the long existential angst The antacid blues And your bleary eyed dreams The backdrop To a mundane 9 to 5 life Serving remote ends To obliquely set themes Catch a flight to Amsterdam Three days to get your mind off things Timeless skies and atmosphere Sphere to sphere And rings to rings Caught in a moment of the illusion of self-sovereignty Lost in a moment of the illusion of self-sovereignty Paved the way To a new born light Centered in the core of your mind Unrestrained and not yet tamed It glares at you thru the Cracks in what you know And beckons you to go An unfamiliar way And the distant howling of the wolves And the impending collapse of all time Belie the distress of the client Who wants to know which outfit to buy And one day Overwhelmed by the sense Of your own sarcastic humor In your ego's last defense The sunrise at your back And so with your commute Now instead another track To create a new you Thirty hours driving To an underdeveloped land Where your I'd is your handshake And you hold your life in your hands Is this the height of madness Or the height of majesty? Is this really the answer Or purely insanity In the fields thru the day Sun's blinding light A man who works with his hands And a sense of pride Fills you like ice And for the first time in your life, you sleep soundly at night Dust you are And to dust you shall return To the ground Dust you are And to dust you shall return To the ground Filling all the words With meaning Building kingdoms tall You think you know What it's all about You've cleared your system and you've figured it out Dust you are And to dust you shall return To the ground Dust you are And to dust you shall return To the ground Those you've left behind still wait Watchful eyes fixed on the gate Missing person on the wall Object of the manhunt's call But you've found your calling You have found your calling On you're knees you bow And with your tongue confess Memories do not grow dim And your family won't give in But for you it's far behind An other life you've left behind And you've found your calling You have found your calling On you're knees you bow And with your tongue confess That you have found your calling I look up to the sky Is there a heaven Why am I? And is there some justice Or anything I owe To the life that I've abandoned And the silence of the evening So vast so high Sends my thoughts backwards But that life - it seems too painful to me And I feel inside That here I'll remain For the rest of my life Several months now I've been free And I've come to see I can escape from the city and the job and the family But everythings the same I can't escape the shame Now I know what I did not know Me It's a problem I can't flee The same in the country as the city Can't shrug it off It's the dawn Of the long existential angst The seltzer blues And your bleary eyed dreams The backdrop To a mundane long day in the fields Serving remote ends To obliquely set themes