Life Is Effectively Over

You sit staring out of the windows
your walls don't have
and the world you imagine
outside doesn't look too bad
but the world you envision
is freedom, and you're sealed off
and if you even got out,
would it really be there at all?
You're at the wall, now

Life is effectively over,
only it seems like nobody knows it but you
Life is effectively over, still they expect
these perpetual motions
that you go through.

You stand looking over the brink,
and you can't help laugh
at all of the meaning
that life was supposed to have
you see it now that it's too late
to do anything right
still struggling a bit,
but your heart isn't even in the fight
You know damn right, now

Life is effectively over
only it seems like nobody knows it but you
Life is effectively over, still they expect
these perpetual motions that you go through.
It's effectively over,
but you've still got to make it work.
Do you really believe
that we've all got a place
in this small, cruel world?

The fat lady's gone anorexic
and she won't sing
you're standing at the Crack of Doom
but who's got the Ring?
You wish that it was more
of an epic majestic loss,
but the story's petered out,
and the end is so many
pages off.
The cause is loss, now

Life is effectively over,
only it seems like nobody knows it but you
Life is effectively over, still
they expect these perpetual motions
that you go through.
It's effectively over,
but you've still got to make it work.
You know what? I still believe
that I will find a place
in this cool, damp earth.