Want

[Verse 1]

Is it by design to be unsatisfied?

It keeps the engine on and the fire bright

For centuries, over centuries we burn for more

Is hunger some kind of curse or a driving force?

I can't put my finger on what we're driving towards

[Chorus]

Mile markers set in place

Look back at all the progress we've made (Mm-mm)

Comfortable but not quite safe

Still so vulnerable at the end of the day

We're speaking up, but death has the final say

[Verse 2]

Future medicine could have saved her life

Or traded in her pain for a gentler kind

Breakthrough after breakthrough, I'm still surprised

The systems we built to help were so paralyzed

So many capable hands were tied

[Chorus]

Mile markers set in place

Look back at all the progress we've made (Mm-mm)

Comfortable but not quite safe

Still so vulnerable at the end of the day

We're speaking up, but death has the final say

[Verse 3]

How much of my life will be illuminated by

The glow of a little screen, I'm hypnotized

Headline after headline after headline

Ceaseless brokenness, were we made for this?

To make room, somehow, for the infinite

To drink the ocean in a single sip?

[Chorus]

Mile markers set in place

Look back at all the progress we've made (Mm-mm)

Comfortable but not quite safe

Still so vulnerable at the end of the day

We're speaking up, but death has the final say

What if the fountain of youth is one step away?