Mistake by the Lake (Demo)

With lungs of lake-silt on that Bland Traverse Shore We heap praise on anything we can ignore And fade it to the background like no much pink noise Drowned by the chiming cash register's voice And was this not the mythic monolith We thought we'd destroyed That noble, naive notion just won't take For pity's sake The mistake by the lake We celebrate all that is safe and mundane The fashions may differ, the function's the same No burning ambition to see past this scene All keen sets of ears with no thoughts in between And to our great embarrassment We thought we'd be the change That noble, naive notion just won't take For pity's sake The mistake by the lake