Listen to the sound
Of our idiotic faith in the clowns
While facing devastation all around
We’re on an express elevator going down
And as it all disappears
We still pledge allegiance to the puppeteers
Accept the comfortable lies that we hear
That take away our pain and fear
We must be out of our minds
To be this lazy and disinclined
Like the mystic apes
We’re deaf, dumb and blind
And round and round it goes
And our virulence starts to show
We’re in the shallows now
And there is nothing
Where there used to be overflow
It’s all in vain
Those hopes and dreams
Are now tears in the rain
Falling on fallow and diminishing grain
Like the mystic apes
We’re deaf, dumb and blind
Mystic Apes
