We wander, eyes closed to the dark With less to guide us now than ever Seemingly omnipotent, but more human and just as afraid This ain't the place for my face in lights I'm tight, driven, living in the fucking shadowless life A nexus in the great human saga when we dared to trade the organizing bliss Of good and evil, right and wrong for other opiates. Any learnable system to replace what had begun to evaporate For many, an era of hope, liberation, possibility For others of abandonment and despair We are beautifully, finally, achingly alone This ain't the place for my face in lights This ain't the place for my face in lights I'm tight, driven, living in the fucking shadowless life (Eyes closed to the dark) We wander, eyes closed to the dark With less to guide us now than ever Seemingly omnipotent, but more human and just as afraid This ain't the place for my face in lights I'm tight, driven, living in the fucking shadowless life Eyes closed to the dark Eyes closed to the dark