(Pronounced: Ger-shock)
EGO
[Intro: Roswell]
Pushed unto me
Pushed unto me
[Verse: Brann]
I have grown dependent on my supported lives
I've become conditioned to feed off fruitful lies
If I enable, I'll sacrifice my mind
But if I should forfeit, the sooner I will die
[Pre-chorus: Stanley (& Brann)]
(Wait!)
I'm watching you
So don't try anything I won't like
(I need time)
I foster you
So don't tell me who's wrong or right
(Wait!)
I promise you
Without me you won't last a day
(I need time)
So shut your mouth
And follow what I say
[Chorus: Roswell (& Stanley)]
(Last chance!)
Just like you to prey on the innocent
Just like you to praise your own ignorance
Just like you to see what you wanna see
Just like you to drain all your empathy
(Last chance!)
Just like me to graze in the negative
Just like me to phase through the benefit
Just like me to slog for a compromise
Just like me to leave my hands tied
[Verse: Roswell (& Stanley)]
Generations grow older,
and they lose track of the time
(You listen to me)
Yet our fathers expect us
to toe a faded line
(You listen to me)
Raising lambs to the slaughter,
they discard what they don't use
(You listen to me)
But the meat tastes better
through a lifetime of abuse
[Pre-chorus: Stanley (& Roswell)]
(Wait!)
I trusted you
And you've brought shame to everyone
(I need time)
Six months are lost
With absolutely nothing done
(WAIT!)
I've heard enough
You've squandered every seed you've sown
(I need time!)
I've cut the cord
You're stranded on your own
[Chorus: Roswell & Brann]
Just like you to prey on the innocent
Just like you to praise your own ignorance
Just like you to see what you wanna see
Just like you to drain all your empathy
Just like me to graze in the negative
Just like me to phase through the benefit
Just like me to slog for a compromise
Just like me to leave my hands tied
[Breakdown: Roswell]
Perhaps the secret to reaching the end
Is [to] reassess the right place to begin
[Build-up: Brann & Roswell]
Brann: Roz, we need to talk.
Roswell: Yes, we do, come here.
Brann: Roz, unless you've made a breakthrough, I have—
Roswell: I-I have made a breakthrough.
Brann: *sigh*... ok, what's up?
Roswell: It was so obvious. We've been running in circles because dark matter can't show us our own future. It was showing us an alternate reality of our own present this whole time.
Brann: Roz, are you suggesting we throw out our hypothesis?
Roswell: Well, yeah. We have to.
Brann: Oh for— Roz, we can't just change it now.
Roswell: Yes, we can.
Brann: No. We really can't.
Roswell: Why not?
Brann: Because Stanley fired us, Roz!
Roswell: ... WHAT?!
Brann: He froze our bank account and took the remaining resources with him. I warned you this would happen if you kept challenging him, Roz! All he asked us to do was either make dark matter harvestable or prove our hypothesis was profitable, but we've done neither! I only see one way left that we can reason with him now.
Roswell: And what's that?
Brann: Well, since you just discovered an alternate dimension, maybe if we inject what little dark matter we have left into our brains, we can prove interdimension—
Roswell: Absolutely not! That's beyond risky, and besides, we'd still need time to figure out if it's an alternate dim—
Brann: ROZ!
[Bridge: Brann & Roswell]
We're out of time
We're out of energy
We made a deal
We had a pledge to keep
We went in blind
We went in willingly
We were a team
We've lost control of ourselves
When you've sold your soul to someone else
(We made a deal)
And they put you through this living Hell
(We went in blind)
Once the cord they've cut belongs to you
(We were a team... whoa...)
There is only one thing you can do
[Guitar solo: X]