Lyrics Fear and the Nervous System

Fear and the Nervous System

Triggers

Oh, sickness

You are a rose

Your power cries

Second mother to every man

Clutch the child

Extend to master sun

Tiny lives burn out

Like so many ants

Don’t tell

But I worked for the sandman

Swallow the stars

And die with the daytime

Day after day

Time after

Times dig out those grinding lower sounds

Pull out the waves

Strip out the insides

A private train out to the center pole

Straight shot (shoot) to the underworld

Half derailed twisted juggernaut

Just one passenger

Hell’s biggest client

My sins and commandments fall away

And each face fills the waiting frames

A broken streetlamp

Cold and convenient

Yes I’ve seen your work

You deviant

Come to me freely

Find a seat next to me

I couldn’t help notice

You’ve never once seen me

Find the escape light

No stop is meaningless

Yes I know what it means

When I press this thing

It’s a tiny slice

Of your experience

Do you really think

That the lonely are ignorant

Helpless

In the shape of the father

The devil’s bell rang

And pulled him under

You left and left me with this

Final achievement

Cursed and unfinished

A young fighter

Alone on an empire

Filled with beauty

And idiots and saviors

(Just) Stop running through my favorites

Take the time to go through the other ones

This context makes me meaningless

Wait here while I find that reel again

Take that and delay our death a while

Stuck dry

True reports that never fail

Call back all the spent humanity

Replay all the years you took from me

Come to me freely

Find a seat next to me

I couldn’t help notice

You’ve never once seen me

Find the escape light

No stop is meaningless

Yes I know what it means

When I press this thing

It’s a tiny slice

Of your experience

Do you really think

That the lonely are ignorant

Climb to the sun soldier

Eat of my flesh master

Suck out my collapsing shell

And refill me

Yes I know what it means

When I press this thing

Finish this one

And close out the bloodline

Don’t tell a soul

But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul

But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul

But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul

But I worked for the sandman

Don’t tell a soul

But I worked for the sandman