This Routine Lyrics - Broadways

i've seen a thousand thoughtless faces today 

a thousand i saw yesterday 

it's our ignorance that keeps us up to pace 

it's our tvs that keep us smiling 

and all the world's money won't buy you freedom, 

diamond rings don't save lives 

how can a man ever be free 

i know it's inside you and me sat outside on broken steps 

the other day a man came up to say hello 

he sang me songs that he heard on the radio 

but said that writing was his passion, gave him the change 

i had wished him good luck 

maybe he'll be fine but he just buys wine 

he's been alone since age sixteen 

how can we push him out of our memories? 

half the world is sleeping now in front of tvs 

and the other half is crying to the night sky 

is this why we were born? 

to wash our emperor's feet? 

or are we just puppets living lies 

i had a dream i tried to talk to mother earth last night 

but she just sat and cried, yeah she fucking cried 

can someone save us from our pain? 

she replied "save yourself" so let's learn to be free 

let's quit our jobs and find some meaning 

let's pour out in the streets 

and yell and sing because without love this life don't mean a thing 

i say fuck this routine