No, Really - Thousand Yard Stare lyrics

You had a growth in your right ear And I had a murmuring heart And all our healthy companions got a free ticket out While the country they left fell apart Now the only way over the ocean Is in the belly of a camouflaged plane And freedom is offered to the ones who enlist Until only the prisoners remain And we wouldn't be able to leave Even if our pa**ports hadn't expired So we sit in our bedrooms and talk on our tapped phones And know our apartment is wired And the TV distracts us with light shows Telling us everything's going as planned But there's something awry out the corner of our eye We can no longer comprehend There's a chain from your hand to mine And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it We were saved from the front lines Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it So we watch the receding horizon 'Til we develop a thousand yard stare And with our old tape recorders we pretend to cross borders And dream that we're breathing free air But we can only imagine that landscape Gaze at pictures now faded with age The greatest country on earth was our prison since birth Its shores an invulnerable cage There's a chain from your hand to mine And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it We were saved from the front lines Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it Burn it down, burn it down There's nothing here I wanna save Leave this town, leave this town Before you're just another slave Turn around, turn around They're already digging our graves In the ground, in the ground We're too close now to turn away There's a chain from your hand to mine And I can't let go of it, I can't let go of it We were saved from the front lines Got nothing to show for it, nothing to show for it