The Long War Cost

Intro

The clock is ticking

Just ticking

Verse 1

Watch the needle drop

Empty

Cold engine stalling

Prices jumping over the moon

Gone

Weeks turn to months

Summer heat brings a winter chill

Fossil fuels

Burning holes in my empty pockets

Stacked debt

I can't breathe when the tank is dry

It's dry

Bone dry

Chorus

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Is it weeks

Is it years

Drowning in the oil and the tears

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Post-Chorus

Price hike

Price hike

Going up

Up

Up

Up

Verse 2

Barrel counts

Hundred forty for a taste of black gold

Stold the food right off the table

Crude

Cruel

Calculated

I see the transport trucks parked on the shoulder

Colder

Harder to survive

Maybe we lose

Maybe we starve

Maybe we break

Everything costs double today

Rent is late

Paycheck is a ghost in the wind

Spent

Gone

Chorus

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Is it weeks

Is it years

Drowning in the oil and the tears

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Post-Chorus

Price hike

Price hike

Going up

Up

Up

Up

Bridge

Stabilize

That was the lie they sold

Temporary fix for a permanent hole

Petrol fumes

The scent of a failing state

Late to the pump

Late to the grocery store

Give us more

We have nothing left

Verse 3

Numbers

They keep climbing like a mountain range

Strange

How the rich get fatter while the engine dies

Lies

Written on the billboard sign

I'm fine

That's what I tell the kids at dinner

Thinner

The portions get smaller every week

Peak

We haven't even seen the worst of it

Chorus

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Is it weeks

Is it years

Drowning in the oil and the tears

How long till the sky falls down

How long till we hit the ground

Post-Chorus

Price hike

Price hike

Going up

Up

Up

Up

Outro

Just ticking

Long war

Long nights

Empty tanks

Empty

Empty

Empty