Lethal Neon

There never was much left to see
In this maze of mangled mirrors and discarded dreams
It's an easy sell to a broken boy
Fill him with drugs, show him dangerous toys
Shame his tenderness, teach him to destroy

Was a real life ever lived here
Has a real love ever grown
I'm waiting on the answers
I can't find them on my own

And this impulse pounds against the skulls
Of the hollow-hearted who know how dull
How dark and depraved is the way of the world we know
Hide in the warmth of a chemical haze
Or go out bloody in a desperate blaze
We scratch at the walls, immersed in the sinister glow

Was a real life ever lived here
Has a real love ever grown
I'm waiting on the answers
I can't find them on my own

We are drawn by an unknown fire
To rise, alive, and reach for something so divine
But we're tied and chained and wired
Going blind and learning how to lose our minds
Seduced by color with no substance
We're buried with the madness of a thousand eons
And we writhe, helpless, in the spider's web
Bound in blood and breathing lethal neon