T-Minus

Down the rabbit hole into the wishing well Down the consciousness into a new blood cell Down the barrel of a gun to a rebel Down the bullet holes into a warmer hell It's T-minus seven seconds to the death of hope And another seven inches to the end of the rope It's a gap between what I had been And what I turn into Through the synapse of an unexpected dream Through the memories that crawl right under my skin Through the burning, through the wavering within To nowhere, to somewhere I had never been It's T-minus seven breaths to what I know as you And a single glance to what I thought was true I am right between my images And what you turn into I ride far and fast Away from all my past To a future I can't meet Cuz it's a few seconds ahead Through every curve, it's got me beat I drive to what I see Yet I don't feel like I'm free There is hell close at my heels My past is a second behind My present is right under my wheels T-minus 8, T-minus 7, T-minus 6, T-minus 5 T-minus 4, T-minus 3, T-minus 2, T-minus 1 Up the tunnels of my new mutating fright Up the veins, through indiscretion to delight Through the dangers that I couldn't leave behind From the killing depths to an undiscovered height It's T-minus one illusion from me to you And a single step to where I'm running to It's the only way to stay ourselves In spite of what we're turning into I ride far and fast Away from all my past To a future I can't meet Cuz it's a few seconds ahead Through every curve, it's got me beat I drive to what I see Yet I don't feel like I'm free There is hell close at my heels My past is a second behind My present is right under my wheels Are we dead? Or we're just condemned? Are we at the end Of the world that we both knew? Are we dead? Or we're just condemned? Are we at the end Of the world that we both love? We ride fast and free To where we'd never been To a future that we feel Each time we inhale the air To live it now and live it now for real To live it now and live it now for real We're not dead And we're not condemned A new world comes ahead The T-minus is over We're not dead And we're not condemned A new world comes ahead The T-minus is over