Society Trance(Album Version) - Ric Ocasek

Society Trance (Album Version) - Ric Ocasek
I was walking by the ocean's lash
And it was like motion from
The stars and light had gone
Alien symbols and catfish cracking
Lovers and outsiders divorced
From the uncaring world
Are sometimes viewed as heroes
Or some antiheroes
Absorbed or tormented by loneliness
And the inability to communicate
Decomposed by the system
With no power to change it
Trying to get upstairs
The nightmare's humming
And bloody nosed bums
On puke stained pavements
Cough up chyme snot and liquid shit
On their pants and under their fingernails
Imagined maniacs with blistering lips
Scream into cement building doorways
Just watching the society trance
Just watching the society bash
Just watching the society crash
Lightning fools the night
The irredeemable night birds fly
But still by windows some are running
While transatlantic doll boys sleep
Shadows drip circle swim mystery riddles
Freedom is no direction
Cause the heart of the matter
Is all in your head
Cause the past and the future
Are illusions
They exist in the present
When you're thinking about them
Through teeter rose inseams
And wayward grips
Like a mosquito's insistence
Lightning fools the night
You're watching the society trance
You're watching the society bash
You're watching the society crash
Watching the society trance
Watching the society bash
Watching the society crash
You won't be understood
But always nearly praised or blamed