William Hale - The Tunnel Lyrics

Riding through the tunnel
With a thousand other people
I can feel the crowded energy
Suppression of our evil

Just the passions you're concealing
In the darkness of your being
Where the church-mice have been sleeping
Where the devil has been feasting
On the matter of our minds, where we all hide
To watch the world roll by

Why are you in such a hurry
You check the time as if you're worried
I've been buried in the flurry
Carried on with silent fury

Over miles of the city
With our destinations nearing
I can feel the saturation
On the streets that we've been filling
With the sadness of our smiles, while all the while
Just drifting on and on

But at the end of every ride, we see the light
We go our separate ways to find
Our own delight, each sacred night
All the ways we choose to waste our time

But you should see the way they laugh
And all they say behind your back
As you attempt to fill the gaps
A sense of structure which we lack

Now when we walk into a room
The walls are painted with the gloom
Of all the people we've consumed
Of all the prophets we've attacked

But now each moment of decision
Working toward the next commission
We must classify our visions
To except each useless mission

So with adequate precision
We descend into decision
Falsifying any wisdom
Construct conflict ad collision

Bow down to the atom bomb
The fattest check
The holy one

All we project, all we demand
As we reject the things we cannot command

So you decide to raise your voice
You say you never had a choice
You are the messenger of fate
And all the powers she employs

You work to fit a greater cause
You finish speaking then you pause
You smile waiting for applause
As silence traps you in his jaws