Clipping. - A Better Place lyrics

If ever you find yourself beaten and broke
And can't feel the whip for
The weight of the yoke
And fear that the night will
Not turn into day
Remember, the darkness will show you the way
It's a long way away it's a long way away
And I’m all alone along a long
Long, long, long, long long, long way

Inside the mind of a man is a massacre
Made up of many a miniature message
He misses the most of it
So convoluted, designed for disaster
It's making the best of a universe
Far too expansive to cope with
And he never chose nor was chosen
By metrics that make any sense
And the senses are numbed
By emotional stresses



There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Who got time on a string? On a finger?
Nothing to remember but the passage of it
Who got time to let anything linger?
Where it hovers, surely
You will learn to love it
Who got time for this love shit anyway?
Gotta survive isn't that mess
Enough for him?

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Set a course it's a bet
Upon an endless Roulette wheel
Odds are ungodly
As are the odds of the body making
It through and surviving the gravity shift
The gravitas of which is lost on
The lost thoughts of a being
Ch-ch-chopped to a bite size in the light
Eyes begging, "Don't eat the messenger"
The message is an SOS and other S's
In the language where it goes

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

And somebody gotta keep watch
Where the watch stops
He talks about his pops in polarity
Fingers fantasize of rocks there
Will never be "Land ho!" likely
Lest a hole in the mantle of Heaven
He's demanding the evidence
For something that
Maybe never was for anyone
He's missing something pretty
He's missing where the air tastes gritty
He's missing the splendor and misery
Of bodies, of cities, of being missed

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Flesh is weaker than the metal it is true
But the metal's being moved into
A thing it doesn't do
Circuitry is only serviceable as much
As it is used so why don't you use it?
'Til you use it up, abuse it
It is strong, it can take it if you can't
Your sinews are more intuitively
Designed for dance so let's set up a random
Course safely away from suns
Four hundred and twenty-three by a
Hundred and twelve by fifty-one

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Who got time on a string? On a finger?
Nothing to remember but the passage of it
Who got time to let anything linger?
Where it hovers, surely
You will learn to love it
Who got time for this love shit anyway?
Gotta survive isn't that mess
Enough for him?

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Set a course it's a bet
Upon an endless Roulette wheel
Odds are ungodly
As are the odds of the body making
It through and surviving the gravity shift
The gravitas of which is lost on
The lost thoughts of a being
Ch-ch-chopped to a bite size in the light
Eyes begging, "Don't eat the messenger"
The message is an SOS and other S's
In the language where it goes

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else
There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Inside the mind of a man is a mystery
Made up of these centuries of
Mistakes he believes are important
To be part of his DNA, calls it "history"
Species with memories longer
Don't bother with sweating the old shit
Maybe it's this time-bound
Conscience that keeps
Him out pushing through nothing
With only the hope brought on
By this belief that

There must be a better place to
Be somebody, be somebody else

Are you ready to go? (Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go, go)
Are you ready to go? (Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go, go)
Are you ready to go? (Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go)
Are you ready to go yet? Let's go
(Go, go, go, go)

There must be a, better place to
(Go, go, go, go)
Be somebody, be somebody else
(Go, go, go, go, go, go)

Go, go, go, go go, go, go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go go, go, go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go go, go, go, go, go, go
Go, go, go, go go, go, go, go, go, go