Time is like a serpentnThat devours its own tailnThe coils grow ever-tighternWith each moment it inhalesnnA foreboding sense of deja vúnThat cannot be ignorednIt's hard to help but feelnWe've seen and done this all beforennHistory be damnednIt's only progress we embracenOur eyes closed to the circlesnThat our memories re-tracennArrogance & avaricenDistort our field of viewnA re-run culture takes your pastnAnd sells it back to younnCHORUSnDecades pass and years go bynDays dissolve into the ethernCondense like cloudsnAnd come raining back downnBut we are blind to this debrisnPiling up around our feetnObliviousnAnd it's killing usnnFear and loathing paralyzenThe populace throughoutnDisengage the rhetoricnThat brought this all aboutnnOvercome and overrunnPretend all this is newnSurely we'll be hailed as heroesnWhen this all is throughnn(CHORUS)nnOur memory is shortnWe throw all caution to the windnThe story's changed so muchnWe can't recall how it beginsnnForesight is an absent friendnWe left in distant daysnReflection makes us realizenThe error of our waysnn(CHORUS)