Everything Rots

Stay glued, stay tuned, don't touch that dial
The colors begin to fade
Nostalgia on the TV calls out
Your name, your name
Watch the parade of happy smiles
How quickly they've been replaced
Something like static in your mouth
The taste nauseates

And we all know there's something wrong
Yeah, slowly going going gone
Play pretend like it's a happy song
Slipping by and barely holding on
Through frayed seems the demon now sees
It's a fate the curse brought upon
Watching you all along
Watching you all along

Now press play and you will see
A dark adventure on the screen
Please be kind and play along
'Cause we're all friends here, don't you know?
As the days bleed into weeks
Laughter turns to unheard screams
A broken mind under control
'Cause everything rots after all

Helpless to help, you witness wrongs
That you can't decipher yet
Evil that permiates the frames
Has set its nest
Lamb to the slaughter sanity
Failing as it infects
You can't take your eyes away 'cause you
Just could, you could be next

And we all know there's something wrong
Yeah, slowly going going gone
Yeah, it's gone gone gone gone
Gone gone gone

Now press play and you will see
A dark adventure on the screen
Please be kind and play along
'Cause we're all friends here, don't you know?
As the days bleed into weeks
Laughter turns to unheard screams
A broken mind under control
'Cause everything rots after all

Play another tape, play another tape on the way out
Play another tape, play another tape, spiraling down
There is no escape, nothing's gonna change, it wears the crown
Everything rots, there's no going back now
Play another tape, play another tape on the way out
Play another tape, play another tape, spiraling down
There is no escape, nothing's gonna change, it wears the crown
Everything rots, there's no going back now

Now press play and you will see
A dark adventure on the screen
Please be kind and play along
'Cause we're all friends here, don't you know?
As the days bleed into weeks
Laughter turns to unheard screams
A broken mind under control
'Cause everything rots after all