It's All Slipping Away From Us

In the pursuit of self preservation, comfort, and freedom
We have limited our lives to mediocrity and utter boredom

How long can you and I survive in a world designed for people we despise
The ability to effect eternity is quickly slipping away form me

Every day, every hour, self preservation empowers hesitation
It's slipping, it's all slipping away from me.

I wonder is there a better place for kids to raise
Will the price of gas soon surpass the middle class

Can interest rates continue to lie straight to our face
Are houses homes or investments that our futures will soon condone

Is war really real, it seems to be something that I can't feel
We're all so numb, until I sat down I couldn't feel your thumb

corporate coffee and genetically modified potatoes will certainly be the death of me
The death of me, it's all slipping, slipping away from me

One day melts into another and what I have to show for it would disgrace my mother
A series of self centered decisions have ushered me directly to all my inhibitions

If ignorance is bliss, then why does stupidity cause us to clinch fists

Slavery is alive, yes slavery is alive, Thank God slavery is alive
So we can achieve the American dream, or for most of us, simply survive

I question the 9 to 5, how is it that you live life
And the 7 to 10, are you still men

Who's in control of your soul, it's your soul, it's your soul,
It's slipping, it's all slipping away from me, it's slipping, it's all slipping away from us.