Mouthpiece lyrics

When caught between the devil and the deep blue sea You won't find me anywhere within that binary Not drifting further out and thrashing violently Nor listless and surrendering my being There is no virtue, no freewill, no God That will lift me from this dying awake Just an ache in my limbs Growing heavy with time The persistent temptation to break And with boundless delusion We reach out a hand as we fall And as darkness closes around us, we stand tall Victor and vanquished suffer the very same fate I do not intend to bear witness or participate Suffer impending doom regardless of vantage Perspectives are formed and carefully managed We're treating the illness Ignoring the source The water is poison, we drank it by force In a world of vivid colour, our eyes are beaten grey Until all the hues of summer fade away Bleeding away An eternal winter around every dinner table Cold and useless conversations Cold and useless conversations So, fuck it, laugh it up, boys But just leave me out of it This endless procession This tireless bullshit We never had a choice Raised to be sycophantic Bend the knee, fucking kiss the hand Kiss the hand that feeds When caught between the devil and the deep blue sea You won't find me anywhere within that binary Not drifting further out or thrashing violently Just fold my hand and walk the fuck away Victor and vanquished suffer the very same Victor and vanquished suffer the very same fate Do not intend to bear witness or participate Suffer impending doom, regardless of vantage Perspectives are formed and carefully managed We're treating the illness but ignoring the source The water is poison, we drank it by force In a world of vivid colour, our eyes are beaten grey Until all the hues of summer fade away They fade away An eternal winter around every dinner table Cold and useless conversations Cold and useless conversations There's powerful voices screaming culture war, culture war The powerful voices that make you feel powerless But you're ill-informed Powerful voices, sowing division, division Powerful voices Anything that divides us should burn, oh Everything that divides us should burn first And all these conversations will strangle us like weeds But we're not powerless we're just a little bit naive Victor and vanquished, victor and vanquished Endure the culture war to ensure that we Victor and vanquished, victor and vanquished Are too distracted to identify the enemy Victor and vanquished, victor and vanquished Sit across the aisle, a manufactured hate Victor and vanquished, victor and vanquished Eat fucking shit and smile, suffer the very same fate