The New Law

Verse 1

Concrete

Cold feet

Pavement cracking under pressure

No power in the grid today

Wires dangling

Down

Deep down

System failure in the basement

Hard drive smoking like a cigar

Silver screens fade out to nothing

Nothing left

Nothing right

Flipping switches in the kitchen

Copper taste inside my mouth

Penny for the thoughts I lost

Chorus

When the lights go out

The king is just a man

The king is just a man

When the lights go out

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Verse 2

Static

Drifting

Digital ghosts in the hallway

Heavy boots on the gravel road

Blacked out windows

Scared

Stay scared

Tearing pages from the manual

Cooking beans on a propane fire

Heavy metal hollow sounds

Empty safes

Empty streets

Empty pockets full of lithium

Building altars out of junk

Scavenge for a little bit

Scavenge for a lot

Scavenge till you rot

Chorus

When the lights go out

The king is just a man

The king is just a man

When the lights go out

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Bridge

No signal

No service

No safety

Satellites fall like heavy rain

Iron rusts

Iron breaks

Iron burns

Verse 3

Silence

Loudest

Louder than the siren song

Walking through the grocery aisle

Smashed glass

Gone

Long gone

Money is just colorful paper

Trade a watch for a gallon jug

New world rising from the mud

Dirty hands

Dirty soul

Dirty water in the bucket

Watch the sun go down again

Wait for it

Wait

Chorus

When the lights go out

The king is just a man

The king is just a man

When the lights go out

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Everything begins again

Outro

Darkness is the new law

Darkness is the new home

Darkness is the only friend

Turn it off

Turn it off

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