Late-Century Dream

[Verse 1]
Well, you never did like the way the road stretched out
Never knowing where all these oily black threads are tied
Under the lights of a spaceship landed
On the ice of a curve un-sanded
There's a clover leaf that'll wreck your life

[Chorus]
And everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody's trying to make space
Around what they think they've got
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody's trying to make space
Around what they think they've got

[Verse 2]
It was never better, it was never any better
But a nation is not soothed
When they tell her, and the doctors all look shocked
But everybody grows up weened
On some sick late-century dream
Or the happy face on a shirt
Smiling, "shop till you drop," yeah

[Chorus]
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody's trying to make space
Around what they think they've got
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody lives in a knot (Everybody, everybody)
Everybody's trying to make space
Around what they think they've got