Everybody was so happy
Until the jealousy set in
With some mushroom cloud phrases
Where every silence had been
With someone you could stand by
And a birth made of fire
I was targeted fast
In destruction's desires
Reaching through the time you spent
Creating needs for your escape
You swear you don't know where it went
But now it's tangled in red tape
Now it's tangled in red tape
From a distance all to forge through
We made a treaty of hearts
But you hid all the weapons
To keep our forces apart
So unhappy in the meantime
For these preemptive attacks
All insurgence for cold ones
With no contingincies back
Reaching through the time you spent
Creating needs for your escape
You swear you don't know where it went
But now it's tangled in red tape
Now it's tangled in red tape
more than 12 years that were held up to fake
With clocks out the window, leaving dust in their wake
You're still moving ahead to try and get past
All the casualties left far removed from the blast
You can say it with a smile but you can't take it back
In your eyes to disguise what you couldn't have asked
Now it's tangled in red tape, now it's tangled in red tape
Now it's tangled in red tape, it's tangled in red tape
As communication dropped out
like high school truancy
Isn't everyone invincible?
That's not the future we've seen
It's not the future we've seen