Everyone Upstairs Is Lying

[Verse 1] The elevators hum like insects The carpet kills the sound Every door has learned a language Nobody writes down There's coffee in the conference room There's blood behind the slide Somebody says "alignment" And everybody looks aside [Pre-Chorus] I kept my hands where they could see them I kept my mouth shut clean But the ceiling started talking Through the fluorescent green [Chorus] Everyone upstairs is lying I hear it through the floor Soft shoes Hard smiling Hands on every door Everyone upstairs is lying The concrete keeps receipts You can bury every warning It comes up through the seams [Verse 2] They dress it up as process They call the fire "growth" They sell the same old panic In a better-looking coat There's a badge for every savior A chart for every wound There's a man who missed the problem Taking credit in the room [Pre-Chorus 2] I watched the smoke choose corners I watched the exits shrink I watched the loudest voices Need the least time to think [Chorus] Everyone upstairs is lying I hear it through the floor Soft shoes Hard smiling Hands on every door Everyone upstairs is lying The concrete keeps receipts You can bury every warning It comes up through the seams