Forward thinking in a backwards time Your whole lifetime in dreams You engender all those finer things That time has stripped away Would you abandon all your earthly ways (The face of what you know) For the kiss of the morning sun (And darkness coats the earth) Just remember that we're forward bound To sleep alone in the ground And the new old ways (The old ways, never change the new ways) For the old ways (The new ways, never change the old ways) And the new old ways (The old ways, never change the new ways) For the old ways (The new ways, never change the old ways) Asleep with the serpents That surround the walls That keep you trapped in your own mind To defy their logic And to step outside Is the only way to reclaim And the new old ways...