[Verse 1] It's not the heat It's the inhumanity Plugged into the sweat of a summer street Machine gun images pass Like malice through a looking glass The slack-jaw gaze Of true profanity Feels more like surrender than defeat If culture is the curse of the thinking class[x2] [Pre-Chorus] Ceiling unlimited World so wide Turn and turn again [Chorus] Feeling unlimited Still unsatisfied Changes never end [Verse 2] The vacant laugh Of true insanity Dressed up in the mask of Tragedy Programmed for the guts and glands Of idle minds and idle hands I rest my case Or at least my vanity Dressed up in the mask of Comedy If laughter is a straw for a drowning man[x2] [Pre-Chorus] [Chorus] [Outro] Winding like an ancient river The time is now again Hope is like an ancient river The time is now again