Fewer Closer Friends

[Verse 1]
It’s oppressively distant to me
Now fulfilment’s a myth and happiness a dream
That I had on a night where I couldn’t even sleep
It’s oppressively distant to me
Don’t make me ask you to leave me alone
A page ripped from the end of our dog-eared tome
A piss in the underpass I learnt to call home
Don’t make me ask you to leave me alone
‘Cause then I’ll have

[Chorus]
Fewer closer friends
The conjugated men
The only ones left
All pillars of regret
Ideology congeals
Ideology reveals
Fewer closer friends
Through blurry, cracking lens

[Verse 2]
There’s a blind spot in my memory
That masks an awkward collision with what I wanted to be
So I swapped our dog tags now I pretend that I’m free
There’s a blind spot in my memory
I am desperate to be admired
There’s this desperately selfish demon I’ve acquired
So I run in the mornings but the fucker’s not tired
I am desperate to be admired ‘cause then I’ll have

[Chorus]
Fewer closer friends
The conjugated men
The only ones left
The vessels of regret
Ideology congeals
Ideology reveals
Fewer closer friends
Through a blurry, cracking lens

[Outro]
Then all the men form a line
The moment she gives the word
All raise their fists to the sky
Factions speak louder than herds