Well I heard they built an island in the pacific
Size of texas, made of plastic.
Well I heard they built a bomb
that could mow us all down that won't make a sound.
Well I heard they built a monument to broken things,
To money, power, fame, all brings
Where people gather 'round in their diamond rings
Hoping things start spreading

While another day goes by,
There's famous aimless and I don't know why.
On televisions screens, in our dreams,
in our magazines, shine so bright like the stars in the sky.
So tell me what it is I know,
I must be missing something but I'm not so sure.
So tell me all the days, all the ways, all the time it takes,
All the real, all the fakes, where this show
Will go?

Well I heard they found a message written on the sun,
Said 'love's the only way to end what we begun'.
They're keeping it a secret, got a race to run,
More money to come.
Well I saw my baby born, saw my father die,
I felt a cold wind blow, heard my mother cry,
Stood in a hurricane, lay under the sky,
Found a road, kept treading.

While another day goes by,
There's famous aimless and I don't know why.
On televisions screens, in our dreams,
in our magazines, shine so bright like the stars in the sky.
So tell me what it is I know,
I must be missing something but I'm not so sure.
So tell me all the days, all the ways, all the time it takes,
All the real, all the fakes, where this show
Will go?

If we keep running to escape,
Going in circles, finding ways
To envy, conspire, covet, hate
Then we'll just be wasting our time
Falling in line, heeding no sign
Stuck neither asleep nor awake