Time and decay dominate everything—
We strut, we fret, we fade
Structure and story turned out to be boring
You grope, hoping for something to stay
Shaking and stirring, you feel like you’re burning—
Everyone is so full of hate
But that nuclear fire will extinguish desire
And together we’ll disintegrate
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
Obliterate me, I can’t tolerate me
I think I’ve learned enough about me
If that ecstasy frees me then death will release me
And I’ll burn as the world turns without me
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
(No, no, no)
But oh, it turns you inside out
Repeating that it’s only skin deep
You’re falling apart and can’t figure out
What happened to the ground beneath your feet
It turns you inside out,
I looked but I could not believe
We’re falling apart without a doubt
As we melt into the ground beneath our feet
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