[Verse 1]
Eyes closed, mouth open
Watching closely, nothing spoken
Beneath glass, the world hushed
Is a dream still a dream if you can't wake up?
Brain fevered, body limp
In altered states, the truth is glimpsed
Descending stairwells of the mind
Drenched in morphine and iodine
[Verse 2]
Linoleum smooth to the stockinged foot
Corridors dark, seeing what I could
High priests in white lab coats
Evangelise the disease as the antidote
Science by day, prayers by night
Belief now stretched sausage-tight
Boiled in the bag, drip-dried
Then sewn up with the poison still inside
[Verse 3]
Condemned as sick, though healthy
The weak are despised by the wealthy
Endlessly nudged to scrub their hands
To bang their pots and beat their pans
Then driven idiotic with fear
While dissenters are herded, then smeared
Tyrannised by quislings and shills
To self-censor till the silence chills
Eyes closed, mouth open
Watching closely, nothing spoken
Beneath glass, the world hushed
Is a dream still a dream if you can't wake up?
Brain fevered, body limp
In altered states, the truth is glimpsed
Descending stairwells of the mind
Drenched in morphine and iodine
[Verse 2]
Linoleum smooth to the stockinged foot
Corridors dark, seeing what I could
High priests in white lab coats
Evangelise the disease as the antidote
Science by day, prayers by night
Belief now stretched sausage-tight
Boiled in the bag, drip-dried
Then sewn up with the poison still inside
[Verse 3]
Condemned as sick, though healthy
The weak are despised by the wealthy
Endlessly nudged to scrub their hands
To bang their pots and beat their pans
Then driven idiotic with fear
While dissenters are herded, then smeared
Tyrannised by quislings and shills
To self-censor till the silence chills
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