[Intro] Nineteen seventy nine, life is a fever dream Pulsing in a haze of neon-drenched excess Locked rooms, treaties made in secret Strings pulled in high glass towers And the streets hum with a funky beat That doesn't quite drown out The screams of the victims [Verse 1] Mistrust, thicker in the air than even the smog Night after night, news anchors drone on and on About yet another round of coups, scandals, and wars But the real truth slithers beneath the surface Coiled and ready to strike [Pre-Chorus] You aren’t supposed to see it. You’re meant to Get up Punch the clock Pay your taxes Lay your head on your pillow And do it all again, day after day. But you can feel it coming, closer and closer It's a [Chorus] Neon Eschaton Making life as we know it dead and gone Neon Eschaton Will we become vampires' cattle or mere automatons Neon Eschaton Are the ETs here to help us, or make us pawns? [Verse 2] Now you’ve seen too much to keep playing along: A message in code slipped under your door A stranger’s warning through the cigarette haze of a dive bar A glimpse of something impossible on a lonely desert road Now, you’re marked The Machine knows your name It’s scorching the rails toward a future Where everybody loses It's a [Chorus] Neon Eschaton Making life as we know it dead and gone Neon Eschaton Will we become brainwashed slaves of telepathic psions? Neon Eschaton Or will everyone have to kiss the ring of the Mafia dons? [Verse 3 ] But you've found a few friends, Some comrades-in-arms You’re a motley crew, without a doubt: A washed-up spy with ghosts in his eyes A hustler who crossed the wrong shadow on the way to his next prize A nobody who saw entirely too much And now there's you. Each of you's a spark in a powder keg You don’t trust each other At least not yet But you only have each other in the face of the [Chorus] Neon Eschaton Making life as we know it dead and gone Neon Eschaton Will we all bow down to a computerized god? Neon Eschaton Or will the Men in Black pull off their ultimate con? [Verse 4] The deeper you wade, the weirder it gets: Dead radio stations droning nothing but numbers Men in dark suits melting into the shadows Machines that hum with bad, bad intent Every step takes you further from what you knew Toward a dark, weird version of the truth A truth that'll turn the world upside down And much sooner than you’d like You’re in over your head The only way out is through the [Chorus] Neon Eschaton Making life as we know it dead and gone Neon Eschaton Will we become vampires' dinner or mere automatons Neon Eschaton Are the ETs here to help us, or make us their pawns? [Bridge] Run They’ll hunt you relentlessly Fight And you’ll probably bleed But if you can keep it together Outwit the watchers and unravel the lies Survive the menace that pulses in the night, You might just have a shot. [Verse 5] The end of the seventies is here, my friend, It’s brought the beginning of the end Can you stop it? Or will the world succumb To the galloping rush of the Neon Eschaton? [Outro]
