Paroles de Illusion & Control

Are you settling? The faces, the shadows They're fading away Wasting it all Wasting it all Without any direction And I can't settle down Without losing something else Oh, (then?) We're entitled in a foreign land Oh, (then?) Nothing's ever done Dare I place it all inside of something I can't reach When I know that I can make it on my own We could never know Is it close enough? Tracing the outline It's fading away Wasting it all Wasting it all Without any direction And I need something more Could you make it feel the same? Oh, (then?) We existed in a different place Oh, (then?) Nothing's ever done Dare I place it all inside of something I can't reach? When I know that I can make it on my own We could never know We will hold all the opposition's gold Made it past all the conflicts of our past I can't settle down Without using someone else I've been counting the seconds After the handshake Under the stairwell It's hard to bankrupt You made a promise I looked away I'll never forget that You can't create a portrait Out of a shadow Out of an idea You never had You never wanted You never could I'll never forget that