Welcome to the system
   Here's the situation
   It's a bit confusing
   Welcome to the maze
   Everybody sees what
  
   Everybody wants to
   Everyone avoids
   Every other gaze
  
   I will be your mentor
   I'll be your advisor
   I'll do what I do
   And you will look away
   Forgetting what you see
   Has always been much wiser
   But someone in the back is missing what I say
  
   Got a complaint in the system
   Got a complaint in the system
  
   Welcome to the park now
   We supply amusements
   Everybody rides
   But everybody pays
  
   What good's causing problems
   When no one's complaining
   What good is a martyr
   If no one is saved
  
   Everybody knows us
   Everybody sees us
  
   Every single child
  
   Can tell you where we are
  
   Every politician
   Says that we are leaving
   But in all this time
  
   We haven't gone too far
  
   Got a complaint in the system
   Got a complaint in the system
  
   You should understand it
   It's not underhanded
   It's really quite simple you see
  
   The right and the wrong of it
   Long and the short of it
   Black and the white of it
   Forget the sight of it
   It is so much cheaper
  
   To be no one's keeper
  
   Trust me
  
   In the dead of the night
   You can stab with a knife
   But it's rare you'll ever get anywhere
  
   So we laugh in delight
   Till you turn on a light
   And we scatter for the darkness
   Or the corners filled with blackness
   And we're
   There
   There
  
   Where
   Where
   There
  
   Then the sailor turned around
   And walked back along the beach
   Towards the boat anchored offshore
   For his decision had been reached
  
   He then sat down on the sand
   Thinking of all he & #146; d seen that day
   And then decided in his mind
   It was time to sail away
  
   For the world that I was born to
  
   Clearly no longer exists
   And the feeling I should leave it
   I can no longer resist
  
   And as he sat there thinking
   A mother and her child walked by
   And the old sailor's hourglass
   Had caught the young boy's eye
  
   So he walked up to the stranger
   As only a young child will do
   To ask if he could see the hourglass
   But then he noticed something new
  
   That the old man he was crying
   Though he tried to wipe his eyes
   So the child forgot the hourglass
   And instead asked the old man why
  
   But before the sailor could answer
   The mother said to leave the man alone
   And taking the child by the hand
   She gently led him home
  
   And as they left the beach
  
   The sand recorded both their tracks
   Until they reached the final dune
   When the young child he looked back
  
   Then he saw the sailor standing up
   The glass falling from his hand
   When it hit the ground the top broke off
   And spilled out all its sand
  
   Then the sailor walked up to the sea
   And waded to the boat
   But instead of pulling up the anchor
   He simply cut the rope
  
   And the last thing that the child saw
   As they walked out of sight
   Was the sailor and his sailboat
   Sailing out into the night