The Ice Files

Verse 1

Empty

Pockets thin

Blood on the gravel

I gave forty hours of my ghost

Dead

Tired

Rent is a mountain

While the taxman takes his heavy cut

Across the water

Gold flows

Money for the borders that we don't own

Hardly breathing

Struggling

Just to keep the heating on at night

Chorus

They keep the files locked tight in the dark

They keep the names off the front of the page

While we stay broke and we fall apart

They find a brand new island for the stage

And I'm tired

Yeah I'm tired

Of the kings and the ghosts in the hall

Yeah I'm tired

Verse 2

Term limits

They stay

Eighty years of greed

Sucking on the marrow of the young

Old men

Cold pens

Writing off the future for the power

Ice walls

White snow

What is buried down in the deep south

Hidden labs

DNA

Splicing up a horror in the frost

They want the youth

The red

Draining every drop to stay alive

Vampires

Liars

Wearing faces meant to never age

Chorus

They keep the files locked tight in the dark

They keep the names off the front of the page

While we stay broke and we fall apart

They find a brand new island for the stage

And I'm tired

Yeah I'm tired

Of the kings and the ghosts in the hall

Yeah I'm tired

Bridge

We should be the giants of the new age

Instead we're falling down the ladder rungs

The smartest minds are trapped inside a cage

While the toxins fill up all our lungs

Give us a wage

Give us a life

Give us the truth

Break the system down

Burn the records down

Clear the house out

Chorus

They keep the files locked tight in the dark

They keep the names off the front of the page

While we stay broke and we fall apart

They find a brand new island for the stage

And I'm tired

Yeah I'm tired

Of the kings and the ghosts in the hall

Yeah I'm tired

Outro

Antarctica is watching

The files are still there

We're broke

But we see you

Yeah we see you

We see you now