it crept to me like a cancer in my sleep
it gnawed the meat right from these bones
and so it seems somewhere, somehow, the wonder was stole

and the truths we've held were squandered and sold
and these walls, these walls will find us
beggars, and liars, and !@^%s

it's getting colder quicker
we're putting bets on who's quickest to leave
we've picked our poison, talked %#@!, but couldn't choke it down

we tap the vein, we taint the trust
this silver spoon's been licked to rust
if this is a test, we're failing