Marching Drums

Do you hear it?
Better yet, feel it?
Your world you really think you can heal it?
Try and tell me you can never go numb
Can't hear the screams against the beat of the marching drums

Do you fear it?
As they scramble to get near it
Can you fight against something so endeared to them
Never back down, never succumb
Whose standing up against the beat of the marching drums

Lie awake at night dreaming of solitude
Quietaphobics all just leading the way
Don't need your hatred
Don't want no sympathy
Just take a look inside at uniform conformity

So does it move you (the beat of the marching drum)?
Does it remove you (the beat of the marching drum)?
Strip out your hopelessness (the beat of the marching drum)?
And leave an empty sense of bliss

If the rhythm stopped, where would that leave you
Noiseaholics couldn't find their own way
Wander in silence
Sink into violence
Lost in the dark in the light of the day

Do you fight it?
Run away and hide from it
Or just embrace the emptiness and lie with it
Let it slip away, losing all that you have won
It's so much easier, moving to the marching drums

So does it move you (the beat of the marching drum)?
Does it remove you (the beat of the marching drum)?
Take all your innocence (the beat of the marching drum)?
Catatonic, now you're moving on with nothing left!

Later-E