Pulp of the Void

[Intro]
[Verse]
The linoleum peels
Like fruit on wheels
I scrub the sugar
That nobody feels
My apron is stained
The mall has remained
In a loop of silence
Perfectly trained
The light is a hum
My fingers are numb
I wait for the hunger
That refuses to come
[Pre-Chorus]
The fountain is dead
Paint it all red
The shoppers are gone
To their dirt-filled bed
I’m wiping the grime
From the end of time
Waiting for pennies
Without any rhyme
[Chorus]
Oh, Orange Julius
Cold and glorious
In the neon glow
Of the long ago
The ice is grinding
The dark is finding
A seat by the plant
In our hollow haunt
We’re frozen in glass
As the centuries pass
[Post-Chorus]
Sticky and sweet
On a dead-end street
Nothing to eat
Repeat and repeat
[Verse]
A Sbarro ghost
Is raising a toast
To the clearance rack
And the things we lost most
I talk to the lid
Of a secret we hid
In the trash compactor
Like a naughty kid
The escalators freeze
In a stagnant breeze
I’m serving the void
On my ghostly knees
[Pre-Chorus]
The fountain is dead
Paint it all red
The shoppers are gone
To their dirt-filled bed
I’m wiping the grime
From the end of time
Waiting for pennies
Without any rhyme
[Chorus]
Oh, Orange Julius
Cold and glorious
In the neon glow
Of the long ago
The ice is grinding
The dark is finding
A seat by the plant
In our hollow haunt
We’re frozen in glass
As the centuries pass
[Bridge]
The last order placed
Has never been graced
By a human hand
In this wasteland
Two-thousand-seven
A suburban heaven
The blender stopped spinning
When we stopped winning
A strawberry swirl
For a vanished girl
She left her receipt
In the sweltering heat
Now the syrup is thick
And the memory is sick
[Hook]
Neon light
Dead of night
Hold me tight
Out of sight
[Chorus]
Oh, Orange Julius
Cold and glorious
In the neon glow
Of the long ago
The ice is grinding
The dark is finding
A seat by the plant
In our hollow haunt
We’re frozen in glass
As the centuries pass
[Post-Chorus]
Sticky and sweet
On a dead-end street
Nothing to eat
Repeat and repeat
[Outro]