The terror of the view The emptiness of this room Always writing against this truth In the way that a painter must have a surface to hit The paint is flying now, breaking the silence at the speed of sound Hitting the frequency, she's reaching back at me Warm and loud, warm and loud Beautiful demons fly out And we're fighting for our lives To fill the corners up with light Black spell casting against them now In the way that a bullet will go until it is stopped And all the medicine went to my head again late last night My bed of saccharine, bad amphetamine I was lit from within Burning with means and ends And the city life is like a sugar high Knocking me out, keeping me wired It's incredible, unsteady chemicals Come and go, the ebb and flow When the measure of your work Is the measure of your worth Then you'd better make it work There's some people I could name, but it's not the time or place To split hairs with the guys downstairs They'll get their fair share, I'm sure The frequency is going to take us there And the city kids, the angry, with-it kids Hate everything the first time It's incredible, the kind of chemicals Knocking around in my mind In the winter of my night I found a desperate kind of light And nothing comes without a fight You want to know Where the good thoughts grow But you ought to know Where all the good thoughts go You can't afford to miss a day Call in sick, you better stay that way Stay that way And the city life is just some other guy Knocking me out, wasting my time Upper-middle class infomaniac You will get yours, I will get mine So get in line The frequency is fine