Lyrics

Should we keep it under wraps about the imminent collapse
Of everything that ever mattered everything we held as true
Was it rumor innuendo in or out the way the wind blew
East or West foul or fair depending on your point of view

But I don't read it in the papers I don't see it on TV
Or reflected in the advertising selling you and me
Everything we ever wanted we could ever hope to be
Refracted in the facts they're stacked against us now you see

There's a close up of the moment where we all get left behind
I go digging through the rubble just to see what I can find
And there's nothing there but trouble just that cold look in her eyes
Could last maybe forever that's when I realize

That there's nothing at the core anymore nothing at the core anymore
Nothing at the heart nothing at the soul
Things fall apart when there's nothing left to hold onto
It's all as hard and final as the slamming of a door
But there's nothing at the core anymoreAll rise all lies

It's that same old sorry story about patriots and glory
How they prop it up with mirrors call it by some other name
Pump a fist and shout a slogan kick your face in his big brogan
You can shine you can shiver find someone else you can blame

Aw we're bold and beautiful and white and damn nearly always right
Our God's the one that's in the Bible our destiny's at hand
Up there on the Silver Screen there's the world the way we've seen it
For so long the future might as well be like it always was
(Didn't you grow up assuming that the world belonged to us)

But there's nothing at the core anymore nothing at the core anymore
Nothing at the heart nothing at the soul
Thing's fall apart when there's nothing left to hold onto
It's all as hard and final as the slamming of a door
But there's nothing at the core anymore
All rise all lies