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Seventh Heaven

Recovery division — Leaked transcript

Signal 03 / Recovered

War Machines

Broadcast intercepted on pirate relay — Sector VII

They take your money, ain't that funny

They play the heroes, we shoot the zeroes

You built a vision on cheap ambition

Another slaughter for the division

We are the children they forged in steel

We have forgotten how to feel

We live on static and cheaper thrills

So, swallow down your happy pills

This city feeds on broken dreams

And pain is sold like property

We're tangled up in war machines

No heaven waits for you or me

They paint the state in black and crimson

And sell your face for television

They crowned a king with plastic glory

A paper crown, a hollow story

We trade our youth for guns and sirens

And choke on truth like poison diamonds

The stage is set with borrowed sorrow

The curtain falls, and I feel hollow

This city feeds on broken dreams

And pain is sold like property

We're tangled up in war machines

No heaven waits for you or me

I wish I could save you

They broke you up into two

I can't them break you

I won't let you break

Let me fall apart

Bullet in my heart

Ending in the street

To a disco beat

Kill the radio

Nothing left to show

Reaching for the sky

Where the angels lie