Closed Circuits - Returner Lyrics

Come shake the hand of fate
And start to commiserate with your life
Your life
Now focus upon the shades
That slowly proliferate
Through your mind
All this time
They've been returning

Hide the pictures that still hurt
Away from your gaze
Kept under lock and key
So harmless and safe
A star-shaped fortress left unseen
Built to outlast a siege
Filled with masks and reveries
Let's see how that works out for you

And when there's nothing left
Then we'll see what we can see
When there's nothing left
Well then you can come to me
I'm sure we can arrange a fee
In keeping with your means

Isn't that how it goes?
The way you see the world
Turning oh so slow
Isn't that how it goes?
The way you see the world
Tell me that's the way it goes

Adrift again amongst the words
Your heart is filled with pearls
The weight too much for it to hold
Without abandoning the world
Searching all the sky for stars
That might show you who you are
As the ground beneath your feet
Hides beneath the falling leaves
But you'd do well to understand
As the sand runs from your hands
That from dust you have come
And to dust you will return
You would do well to understand
As you try to plant your flags
That from the dust you have come
And so you will return