You pull the strings that are keeping me here
A foot in the grave and the other in fear
Welcome the world that can harbour our greed
Nothing but a math of reduction to me
Now what if I'm left to wander alone?
Afraid of the words that come through the phone
Inside of my head all my brain cells are dead
And no one remembers a thing that they said
Our pursuit of happiness
Our pursuit of happiness
You cash the checks that can wash it away
One hand in the pot and the other enslaved
All instances trapped for somebody else
I'm used to the shit but get sick of the smell
So what if I've left to never come clean?
Obsessed with these thoughts that can't be redeemed
Now every last name, they all stay the same
In time to sort out that there's no one to blame
Our pursuit of happiness
Our pursuit of happiness
Redressed with what cannot exist
They're only lies that get dismissed
Existing in the lines to read between
You'd think that I could rise above
But I can't seem to get enough
I'll never disagree that it's obscene
It's so obscene
A foot in the grave and the other one lost
We could try moving on but there's always a cost