Empty Lives

I'm just a tick in a box on a questionnaire

Another moment that flashes into nowhere

A brand name on a pill that get's you there

I'm getting nothing and expecting oblivion

The past ain't even worth livin' in

Its just a nail that keeps being driven in

I'm cold-blooded and completely relaxed

I'm breaking legs and avoiding the facts

On the up escalator going down all the cracks

Yeah

You are the dummies of another frightened nation

I am a candidate for elevation

But when i woke up this morning I'd lost all sensation

All sensation

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uhuh

Can't hear

Your cries

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Empty lives

Your empty lives

Empty lives

I'll be obedient, there is no escape

Forms to fill, time to kill, love death and rape

Sleep baby sleep, don't let nothing awaken you -

Don't live for tomorrow, it's given you the slip

That's all contained on a silicon chip

I'm losing shape for the eighties feeling everybody's grip slip

Everybody's grip slip

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uhuh

Can't hear

Your cries

So don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Empty lives

Just there waiting to be filled

With someone else's stronger will

Just some reason to survive

With empty

Empty

You got the empty, empty

You got the empty, empty

Empty lives

Bring me water, bring me cocaine

Bring me something lethal, something that leaves a stain

But please don't make me feel that emptiness again

Feel that emptiness again

So get them

Get him

But don't get me

Uhuh

Get fat - it's your size -

But don't get me to fill up your empty

Don't get me to fill up your empty

Don't get me to fill up your empty lives

Your empty lives

Your empty lives