Sister City - How Much lyrics

On the cloudiest night through a satellite's eyes You can see it The people below throwing stones Sleep in attics and basements There's a war we all know and we're scared That we'll have to go fight it So for several years we've just fought one another to spite it The final frontier has been cleared Now it's closed so we're clinging To what we've got left Our few honest attempts at a living And halfway around the world People are dying And on birch street the leaves on the trees Laugh but look like they're sighing I want to know Where you think you are going And god help your soul If that's what you believe For a couplet I sold What was left of my integrity And I don't have goals But I do have an apartment In a city full of people And a subtle, sinking feeling We're all equals I wouldn't expect to hear those words from you So I bid a fond farewell with this excuse I want to know what I don't know I want to know what no one knows I'll learn to swim so I will float Or I will tread water and gracelessly sink below Like d**h is a puzzle and I learned where the pieces all go So on every goddamn cloudy night through every eye of every satellite I am foaming at the mouth And with every stone you people throw at bleeding hearts and broken bones I am laughing And that war we'll one day have to fight is as visceral as a synapse fired I am waiting I shook the hand of father time I spit in my own and I looked him in the eye I am not sorry