I am the beige paint on the asylum wall

A texture to stare at, nothing at all

I am the nitrogen filling the bag

Just air to prevent the collapse and the sag

Not a villain, not a hero, not a violent crime

Just a biological pause in the sentence of time

I am not the structure

I am the insulation

I am the mould

That holds the foundation together

You don’t look at the dirt

But you stand on it

We are the cumulative crush in the column

The slow resistance that dictates the pace

I am the measure of what you’re ignoring

The necessary anchor holding this place

I am the breadth of the horizontal line

The non-event that must be priced

You cannot isolate the zero

You cannot isolate the zero

I am the placebo effect in a pill

I cure nothing, I just keep you still

I am the white noise made out of meat

A calorie burned just to generate heat

You want the diamond, you discard the coal

But pressure requires a heavy toll

I am the density, I am the mass

I am the breath fogging up the glass

I am not the structure

I am the insulation

I am the virus

That forces mutation

You don’t count the insects

But you eat what they grow

We are the cumulative crush in the column

The slow resistance that dictates the pace

I am the measure of what you’re ignoring

The necessary anchor holding this place

I am the breadth of the horizontal line

The non-event that must be priced

You cannot isolate the zero

You cannot isolate the zero

Accumulate

Pile up

Stack the bodies

Make a floor

Walk on me

Walk on me

I am the pavement

I am the gravel

I am the physics that keeps you

From floating away

Essential waste

Critical trash

Essential waste

Critical trash

The sum is heavy

The sum is heavy