Pills For The Sky

Pills for the Sky There’s a heavy vapor in the room tonight Bleaching out the edge of the neon light They said the building was getting too loud So they dropped a little chemical into the cloud Now the hallways stay quiet and the wind behaves Nobody’s screaming through the floorboards or the graves We just stare at the ceiling from the mattress floor And nobody remembers what the screaming was for The internal weather is starting to clear They ironed out the panic, they quieted the fear The signal’s getting soft The sky is coming down Throwing pills at the sky just to quiet the rain Trying to chemically alter the weight of the pain We flattened the peaks and we buried the deep And we traded the screaming for a permanent sleep The horizon is smooth, the color is gray And we medicated all of the static away There’s a bottle on the counter with a child-proof cap A little plastic savior for a modern trap It doesn’t fix the fracture in the concrete floor It just paints a little curtain over every door I see them moving through the aisles with the same dead eyes Chemically manufactured, uniform smiles We’re just tenants in a building under managed sun And nobody can remember how the damage was done The internal weather is starting to clear They ironed out the panic, they quieted the fear The baseline is flat The edges start to blur Throwing pills at the sky just to quiet the rain Trying to chemically alter the weight of the pain We flattened the peaks and we buried the deep And we traded the screaming for a permanent sleep The horizon is smooth, the color is gray We medicated all of the static away Throwing pills at the sky just to quiet the rain Trying to chemically alter the weight of the pain We flattened the peaks and we buried the deep And we traded the screaming for a permanent sleep The horizon is smooth, the color is gray We medicated all of the static away The weather inside is perfectly still.