Staircase

[Part I: Staircase]

[Verse 1]

Automaton drone

You're lost with no phone

And the home you made your own

Can never be paid for

The great in the small

The rise and the fall

And you come back for more

[Verse 2]

The need to belong

And the will to do no wrong (No wrong)

The ones that you lost

Abandoned or crossed

Will haunt you

[Verse 3]

Plagued by poor health

But you stockpile more wealth

Congratulate yourself

A sense of proportion

An act of extortion

There's too much distortion

[Verse 4]

You sink in stages

As you're approaching middle ages

(You're up to here in debt)

Insidious tech, you're up to your neck

Why don't you give it a rest?

[Electric Guitar Solo]

[Verse 5]

A train set, a cold war threat, a prison

A poison nest, a chrome cassette, division

The blue and white, a power strike, a girl you like

The daylight fades, you feel your way, daguerreotype

A train set, a cold war threat, a prison

A poison nest, a chrome cassette, division

The blue and white, a power strike, a girl you like

The daylight fades, you feel your way, daguerreotype

[Bridge]

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ah-ah-ah-ah, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

[Verse 6]

The power of nature

And the oppression of strangers

The consequence of dread

A barbarous brain

A dominant strain

You'll never win this game

[Chapman Stick Solo]

[Part II: The Harmony Codex Reprise]

[Verse 7]

It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth

(It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth)

I can see across the whole of London and beyond

(I can see across the whole of London and beyond)

Ships and thunderstorms at sea and beyond

(Ships and thunderstorms at sea and beyond)

A trillion stars in a billion galaxies

I gaze out across the millennia it took the lights from these stars to reach the Earth

I close my eyes

(I close my eyes)

And breathe

[Verse 8]

I came here searching for something

(I came here searching for something)

But I don't remember what that thing is anymore

(But I don't remember what that thing is anymore)

Did I dream you? Or are you dreaming me now?

As your waking thoughts gradually take over

As all dreams are ultimately forgotten

And lost...

(And lost...)