Convoluted Absolutes Lyrics - Singles - Tourniquet

I feel numb 

And think we're half asleep 

Our collective sense of outrage 

Has gone the way dodo birds and Model T's 

We're being trained 

We tell them what they want just to appease 

It's the end of absolutes 

Welcome to the death of meaning 

Mice will run a maze for cheese 

Koko signs her A - B - C's we think she's talking to her kitten in the corner 

Pavlov's dogs would drool if they could hear their chiming cue 

Just like them we've been conditioned 

We're going dumb 

Have we forgotten how to speak 

Would mute cries fall on deafened ears 

If we could get ourselves to give voice to our pleas 

We're so well trained 

That's the way it is and so we'll let it be 

If there are no absolutes 

Our objections have no meaning 

Birds will learn to talk for treats 

Flipper laughed and danced to please and avoid electrocution 

Pavlov's dogs would drool if they could hear their chiming cue 

Just like them we've been conditioned 

Feeling numb 

Half asleep 

Being trained 

We're just like sheep 

Going dumb 

We never speak 

So well trained 

The truth we never seek