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NUX VOMICA LYRICS
"A Civilized World" (2007)
1. All the Clocks Have Different Times
2. Room Silencer
3. Why Are They Laughing?
4. The Final Election in a Crumbling Empire
5. Lover
6. Abandon
7. The Persuasion of Extreme Commuting
8. The Point and You
1. All the Clocks Have Different Times
The strangest thing was realized
By a thoroughly depressed, detached, angry, confused young product of a ridiculous, hypocritical, bloated society:
All the clocks have different times
The time spent fumbling for the keys in the house
Was lost in the car where the time stood still
Rush hour started right on time
Only to continue until it became
Rush day...rush week...rush yeah...rush millenium...rush age
When the clock strikes one, the clock strikes many
When the clock struck twelve, it struck hard
It struck again and again and again and again
Hour after agonizing hour
Like clockwork
Until one person realized
All the clocks have different times
Like so many monumental moments in history
Some rejoiced, while others fell flat on their faces
Most just stuck to their routines,
Watched the clocks,
And checked their watches
Trying desperately
To keep them all the same
2. Room Silencer
3. Why Are They Laughing?
4. The Final Election in a Crumbling Empire
As we sit on top of the world, with our gutters cluttered with waxen cups crushed under our tires, and all we see every day are the familiar sights of our daily existence, we know nothing.
As the dust continues to collect in every corner of every polling place, and every television screen has a familiar smiling face, and our time's wasted as they shovel the shit so high we can taste it, we know nothing.
As every doorman checks our IDs, and every scrap of metal gets detected, and we hold our twenties up to the light, and plant forests in the median strips to make things right, we know nothing.
But the whole world is watching.
The whole world is watching and the whole world is sick, and they'd really rather see a puppet head on a stick.
And all the soulless self-important liars holding the reins make the good ones fighting for something real in terms of change seem so strangely out of place, their goals so out of range...
And we feel ourselves choke as the mud flies, and the tradition of lies undermines and belies what we're taught all our lives:
"Vote or don't complain."
That short-sighted, simplified argument proves that we know nothing.
And the whole world is watching.
5. Lover
6. Abandon
7. The Persuasion of Extreme Commuting
8. The Point and You
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