Shiny Things

Let's not worry about images

Let's not worry about mind control

Let's stop talking about prisoners

Up against an invisible wall

Let's not feel anything at all

Keep it inside your chest all night

Let's not worry about going extinct

We'll be preserved on a shelf somewhere

Give us mirrors for company

And lock all the windows and doors when you leave

It's as if nothing happened, as if it was enough

Think we rolled over gladly, thinking of shiny things

We wasted a lot to get there, burnt all the bridges home

The last of the pterodactyls has headed out for the seas

Build us a new perpetuity

Tell us we've nothing to fear from ourselves

Now that we're painted so colourfully

We'll be replaced by someone somewhere soon

It's as if nothing happened, as if it was enough

Think we rolled over gladly, thinking of shiny things

We wasted a lot to get there, burnt all the bridges home

The last of the pterodactyls has headed out for the seas