Lost my innocence, lost my soul
Lost my diligence, lost my self-control
Never asked to do, always told
Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone
Rip out your anger, replace it with languor
Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone
Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

A sink, a stove, a home, a household pet
A dollar that I never got to spend
A roof, a room, a twin size bed
A check just big enough to cover rent
Gotta pay to park, gotta pay to breathe
And after all, you lose your heart in the spider's web they weave

A foe, a friend, a hypocrite
Three ideologies that all conflict
I need your help, but don't take mine
I hate to say it, but I must admit
I don't have the time, I don't have the patience
Relationship built to exhaust, I can't recall the day I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul
Lost my diligence, lost my self-control
Never asked to do, always told
Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone
Rip out your anger, replace it with languor
Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone
Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

Handshake and name
My twenty twenties
They start today
I'm wide awake
Yeah wide awake
My twenty twenties
They start today
I sign my name

I woke up first, to cold embrace
The City desolate and soon erased
But in the here and now I'm fine
Make memories apathy will soon replace
Guess I missed the train, guess I missed my chance
The last express to paradise has left the station, left me

Shaking like a leaf in the wind
I throw the towel in
Glamour, charm, and romance at a cost
Where do I begin?
I guess I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul
Lost my diligence, lost my self-control
Never asked to do, always told
Somewhere 'long the way, lost a hand to hold

Molded, measured, and left alone
Rip out your anger, replace it with languor
Then levied, emptied, and turned to stone
Rip out your passion, replace it with cash and disdain

Handshake and name
My twenty twenties
They start today
I'm wide awake
Yeah wide awake
My twenty twenties
They start today
I sign my name

After proving you belong
After having sold your song
Looking back you realize
You were the product all along

Dance for companionship
Dance for your class exam
Dance for your chance to grow old and represent a brand
Dance for your board and bed
Dance for your medicine
Dance for your ration of nectar from the pitcher plant

Dance for your dignity
Dance for your promised land
Dance, monkey, dance for your chance to grab a winning hand
Dance to the riverfront
Your music's getting bland
You danced away all your flair to join a cover band

Bit by bit you auction off your focus
Melancholic, misanthropic, made the big promotion
Bit by bit you lose sight of your motives
Burning all the bridges crossed, barely even noticed that I

Lost my innocence, lost my soul
Live in ignorance, loving all night long
Burning alcohol through my veins
Jaded, cynical, hopeful all the same

No way back to the way you were
You can't fight forever, it's a futile endeavor
I pledge allegiance to customer
So put on your smile, if just for a while

Now mold yourself from the clay I hold
Tenderness wasted, replace it with hatred
Then emptied, frenzied and turned to stone
Kill your compassion, replace it with cash and decay

Handshake and name
My twenty twenties
They start today
I'm wide awake
Yeah wide awake
My twenty twenties
They start today

Set the controls
Heart of the sun
We're burning brightly
But we'll be gone before the song is even done
More dopamine
Next up to come
My twenty twenties
Had just begun
And now they're done

Bitter penthouse suite farewell, five-star hotel, it's over now
Take the elevator downtown to Charlie's for the snack bar
Just you wait, just you wait, everybody here drives a jaguar
Wish I could, wish I would, wish I learned to play on that guitar
Waiting on the world to come around
I'm wide awake, but still I'm dreaming

Finally, got some savings now, I've stashed away about a thousand
Jack fell down and broke his crown, tell me, genius, what's the plan now?
Just one accident away from insolvency, plain and simple
Just one accident away, cough it up, you cheap, lazy cripple
Admin said my healing hands are tied
What kinda sick game are you playing?

Tell me how to be content, I'll take your word, and all it meant
One day you could be president, real go-getter, top one percent
Ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom, roll the dice for lesser, for greater
Give it up, give it up, everybody does sooner or later
Running out of money, out of time
I'm wide awake, but I stopped dreaming
Gave up all but breathing
Empty, but at least that stops the bleeding
Highest bid can have my soul
Now I fit that rounded hole
Take me off the payroll
Send me home

Through your lips my name lastly uttered
Ten meager years from the machine
Poster Child Americana
Chased the patriotic daydream
As I spend my final dollar
Trickle up to join the sea

Ushered into the City gently
Molded to product sold and bought
Stomach full, but spirit empty
Pointless race we always lost
Though they may have promised plenty
In the end we pay the cost