Tonight there's a man with a half-dead face
Clinging to the glow of an LCD
No "someone out there", no "anyone out there"
No hands left to reach for, just the screen and he

A dark little room and a darker future
He can't tell which one comes first anymore
Light hurts his eyes and the mornings scare him
So he walks through the night instead of out the door

In the middle of the silence
Truck engines scrape inside his brain
Like an insect drifting slowly
To convenience store neon in the rain

Nicotine, tar, alcohol addiction
Overdid it, now today is just "today"
Staring at the display in a pitch-black room
Eyes gone numb, he whispers, "I should sleep this day away"

You're so good at pretending you are living
You're so good at acting like you're dead
On the verge of losing every last bit of your mind
But you're the sanest one around instead

You're so good at playing that you're tired
So good at pretending you don't care
In this short-sighted little world you wander through
With pixelated monsters everywhere

Tonight there's a man with an "I'm alive" face
Clinging to the ghost of hope
"If I move like this here, do that over there"
Always changing routes to find the perfect road

But he runs into the same old dead end
Gets sick of it and just goes back to bed
"Fuck it all, today was worthless again"
Back to square one for the hundredth time in his head

All the past glory, happiness, and ties
Thrown away and scattered on the way
There's no way to ever really take them back
So you wave and say, "whatever", walk away

You're no good at fixing all the edges where they fray
And you hate starting over even more
Every time you try to patch another broken day
You feel yourself fade out a little more

You're so good at pretending you are living
You're so good at acting like you're dead
On the verge of losing every last bit of your mind
But you're the sanest one around instead

You're so good at playing that you're tired
So good at pretending you don't care
In this short-sighted little world you wander through
You live with a pixelated monster, and it's you there