Slow downnThese chemicals won't take you anywherenSo let the smoke go down and fill the roomnAs you look at me for something else to blamennBreathe in deep as the poison fills your lungsnIt's nights like these that make mornings a hope will never comenSo hold your breath and follow menClockwork devices are all we'll ever bennSo you do your dance obliterating everything you seenAnd I do my best to waste it all awaynnThis machine replicates and hums alongnThe medication ranges but the high is all the samenJust a walking catasrophe nownCrashing into younnSo it all goes up flames erasing what will never benAnd we'll do it all again tomorrownnSo it goes and now it's gonenThe life we choose is how we'll fallnThe way we destroy is the art of it allnThis portrait illustrates what you made me out to benThese colors never run, they only fade in timennI've turned to see your reactionnAnd what I thought it would benFrom somewhere in the distancenI hear the sirens screamnnDancer, I remember the night you set this place on firenWith you out there in the middle of the roomnSitting pretty but you know you havennNo defense, you have no defensenAs we both go down in flamesnYou hold your breath and wonder whynNo defense, you have no defensenThen you do your dance obliterating everything in sightnnSo it goes and now it's gonenThe life we choose is how we'll fallnThe way we destroy is the art of it allnThis portrait illustrates what you made me out to benThese colors never run, they only fade in timen