Time (Welcome To My Nightmare)

Time knows me well 
Time matches my stride 
Time ticks off every heart beat 
Time waits beside 
Every moment of danger 
Each impending disaster 
Time stands still in the crisis 
Then time flies on faster 

CHORUS 
It's just an illusion 
This sense of existence 
Buoyed aloft from the quantum 
Off in Heisenberg distance 
It's pure self-deception, this idea of being an 
Agent with choice 
When the bubbling particle chaos below us 
Alone has a voice 
And that voice says 
Welcome 
Welcome 
To my nightmare 
Time is evolution 
Time is red, tooth and claw 
Time wastes itself 
Time rubs me raw 
I lost all sense of time 
Counting the lines on my face 
While time marches me on 
In its unswerving embrace
 
 
CHORUS 
It's just an illusion 
A trick of the mind 
The hubris of a point 
Surveying a line 
In a space that's surrounded 
By a darkness so deep 
Our little life rounded 
By an unthinking sleep where we say 
Welcome 
Welcome 
To my nightmare 

Time rolls down its hill 
Implacable and incremental 
Time strips us of dignity, children, and friends 
Time is unsentimental 
Time patiently waits 
To shuffle off this mortal flesh that we drag 
Where every time we close our eyes is just 
A dress rehearsal rag 

CHORUS 
It's just an illusion 
Like Christ and cryonics 
We're plasmids in amber 
One of matter's harmonics 
Time transeuntem 
Et non revertentum 
We all have the same dreams 
No use asking who sent them 
We just say 
Welcome 
Welcome 
To my nightmare