Ric Ocasek - Society Trance lyrics

I was walking by the ocean's lash And it was like motion from the stars and light had gone Alien symbols and catfish cracking Lovers and outsiders divorced from the uncaring world Are sometimes viewed as heroes or some antiheroes Absorbed or tormented by loneliness And the inability to communicate Decomposed by the system with no power to change it Trying to get upstairs, the nightmare's humming And bloody-nosed bums on puke-stained pavements Cough-up chyme, snot and liquid sh** On their pants and under their fingernails Imagined maniacs with blistering lips Scream into cement building doorways Just watching the society trance Just watching the society bash Just watching the society crash Lightning fools the night The irredeemable night birds fly But still by windows, some are running While transatlantic doll boys sleep Shadows drip, circle, swim, mystery riddles Freedom is no direction 'Cause the heart of the matter is all in your head 'Cause the past and the future are illusions They exist in the present When you're thinking about them Through teeter rose inseams and wayward grips Like a mosquito's insistence Lightning fools the night You're watching the society trance You're watching the society bash You're watching the society crash Watching the society trance Watching the society bash Watching the society crash You won't be understood But always nearly praised or blamed