The Effection - Agony lyrics

Did you ever wonder why When the whole world is sleeping, you're awake? And you're lying there in the harshness of silence all alone Did you ever wonder why When the whole world is calling, you're not there? You're off into a momentary lapse of life, and they all go on living, but you just stare Maybe life is just a novel novelty, I just can't say Maybe ignorance is bliss, and we're all better off this way Or maybe there's a sublime subtext, hidden history That I just can't see in a life of agony Did you ever wonder why When the universe haunts you like a ghost In your head a hundred million voices blare? They're talking about nothing much at all And when the sky glows gold in summer afternoons, that hint of haze And gold has been the reason that so many wars are waged The irony, it burns me like the sunlight on my face I just can't say in this life of agony Whatever happened to the satellite we knew That spins around a flame, a star that has no name? Well, they demanded we learn that with desire we burn Then promise us eternal flame, but did you ever wonder why Mother Mary, matriarch, pleads with her children "do no cry" While the figureheads of state create the reasons young men die? If I have to leave this place, please understand why I can't stay Because I have to get away from this life of agony This life is agony