The Hungry Hungry Hypocrites - The Prickly Pear lyrics

If i could remove from this labyrinthine sand This silence that clashes with all i had planned I'd throw it as far as my head could command My two weak arms to heave it And if you weren't mired in endless combat And if you had a fresh hunk of bone to gnaw at And if you heard them scream loudly "the world is flat" Enough times, then you too might believe it She belongs to the church of the latter-day sinners Devouring narcotics like thanksgiving dinners And if she's cold in the spring, then imagine the winters And no, i'm not talking about the weather She goes off to pray with the scraps and the sprinters They all wear their medals, so they all must be winners And she asks them aloud which way shce looks thinner Strung out or strung up on a tether And she's got miles to go before she sleeps And she's got miles to go before she sleeps And we've got miles to go before we sleep And we've got miles to go before we sleep We go in idealists, with hearts and with missions But we find shades of gray, and then we find volition We can beat them to d**h, but not into submission And that is the point where resolve will corrode And then all that's left are some faraway voices The misbegotten children of some misbegotten choices And the drums and the bombs and the s** and the noises That rumble reminders in binary code We'll sing 1001011 We can live in denial but we can't live in squalor We don't want to learn but we want to be scholarly So we can deal with the voices that holler In phone calls and regular visits He sits in his chair 'til his legs start to chafe He's never in danger, so never unsafe And all generations of youth have lacked faith But ours is the first not to miss it And god bless me father, for i have sinned And god save me father, for i have pinned All my hopes on a whim and my dreams on the wind It's been too long since my last confession Because complacency works inside our paradigm I'm angry as sin, but silent as a mime And i get this feeling that we're running out of time But if we can't get the answers then we won't ask the questions And we've got miles to go before we sleep And we've got miles to go before we sleep And we've got miles to go before we sleep And we've got miles to go before we sleep So this is how the world ends So this is how the world ends So this is how the world ends Not with a bang but with a simper