Punishing World

Universe is drama and it plays this game

Got so involved, forgot we're all the same

Appears so real and it does it so well

Some of us in heaven, some are in hell

On the edge of our seat, don't know where it's gonna go

'Til we're all throwin' bombs, screamin', "On with the show!"

In a punishing world

Incredibly punishing world

Vortex of defensiveness in which I quip

Escaping conflicted, the conflict I try to escape

Try to find some comfort, what I find instead

Like changing my position on a cement bed

A mess of anxiety that lusts and loathes

Livin' in terror of debt and in the misery I know

In a punishing world

Incredibly punishing world

Subterfuge, Orwellian doublespeak

A consciously awarin' little ego-freak

So much bullshit everywhere I go

Amazing how many things there are that aren't so

In a punishing world

Incredibly punishing world

Punishing world

Punishing world

Instead of compassion, lots of love and joy

A vast competition, compulsion to destroy

Further from line I get in spirit and mind

Selfishness makes stronger all the ties that bind

I laboriously make 'em with my words and thoughts

'Til they're impossible to break, I'm stuck, I'm done

In a punishing world

Incredibly punishing world

It's a punishing world

Such a punishing world

What a bummer punishing world

All summer punishing world

Man, it's a punishing world

Yeah, a punishing world

It's a punishing