Hearts and Minds - Miles Away

We all fade away from the seas we once sailed

The lives we knew and the faces that played

They showed us the facts, we showed them on back

Searching for meaning and reason to live

Words we fought for still nailed to the door

In houses held hostage by razor-sharp hearts

Moral crusades versus capital gains, the choices were all in our hands

Worked to the bone with nothing to show

Raising your family the best you can do

Vultures are waiting, circling you

Pills and abuse, take what you need to slowly numb the pain

Take our minds away, to slowly numb the pain

Take our minds away, take us back

To a place where laughter ruled and life was so much easier

Nothing to prove for me or you, we loved our lives with all our hearts

The simple things you cannot buy

Traded in for suits and ties, mortgages, weekly bills

We stagnate in the routine of a reality force fed by wealth

Shackled by TV, fictitious religions, forced onto our knees

And taught to deceive the ones we truly love

They set us up for this fall

And when it all comes crashing down, who will you be?

When it all comes to an end, where will you be?

When it all comes crashing down on you