Don't search for the hero inside
Don't look in the mirror and change
Don't learn to love yourself
Forget all that inconsequential crap

All that shallowness
You masquerade as depth
Look for the devil inside and
Look for the darkness and

Accept or reject it
Don't ignore it
You need to consider it
One day at a time

Don't shower me in your airy fairy
Perfect Love and come criticise mine
Unless you know your demons and
Have overcome them one by one by one

By one...by one

One by one

Don't search for the hero inside
Don't buy your truth off the shelf
Ask yourself who designed this truth
And who designed the shelf itself

Politicians with ideas
They just can't bear to waste
They stored them in their mind
In some Cruel Dark Place.

We are closer to the roof than you think
You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide

Simple ways to stay in power
By filling every waking hour
With trivia
And debt so

Aspirations replaced by nostalgia
And regret for your entertainment
Served up for your enjoyment
Watch in haste repeat at leisure

Dignified I lied
The eyes of snakes are watching me
To see me make my next mistake
'Cause...

Tragedy has bruised you
But I take things so personally
If I were as pretty as you
I still would not be happy so

Don't search for the hero inside
Don't look in the mirror and change
Don't learn to love yourself
Forget all that inconsequential crap

All that shallowness
You masquerade as depth
Look for the devil inside and
Look for the darkness.

Simplified I tried
My shadows are all spoken for
All the the fish in the seas are occupied
Living full and happy lives

The leaves don't leave the tree for fun
Their time has come
This winter lasts too long

You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide
There's no good side to pick so

Just sit back and watch or
Raise your voice to protest
Get checked and processed...

You start to wonder what's outside
Blue skies and lullabies
Money men and genocide
There's no good side to pick so

Just sit back and watch or
Raise your voice to protest
Get checked and processed...

So who will protect my children
From the advancing armies
Of the nostalgic?

You give a man a can of coke in prison
Tell him he's tasted freedom

Simple ways to stay in power.