Steam Scenery
Showing you the smoke machine
And going on about how it runs
Words were fading in and out
'Cause it was holding you like a socket holds the plug
Breathe slow
There were rooms like this in grandmother’s house

They let you on the stage so you could see the workings of the show
All the little bits of tape
And the plywood backs to flat, unbroken homes
Lights low and it was all wrapped in the steam scenery

It couldn’t get you
But didn’t seem impossible
It made you feel so alive and of a lifetime
The lie wasn’t the lie
And all barriers were curtains to see behind

It really isn’t so broke when it’s all wrapped in the steam scenery

It couldn’t get you
But didn’t seem impossible
It made you feel so alive and of a lifetime
The lie wasn’t the lie
And all barriers were curtains
It made you feel so alive and of a lifetime
The lie wasn’t the lie
And all barriers
And all barriers were curtains to see behind