Absent elements

Everyone plays along Get them giving or steal the life they?re breathing They?ll grow sickened Take their secret codes and signals Discover all they know Keep up the pace now until it all dries up You?ll never find out now That all these absent elements Build your comfortable defense stronger still Like an emptiness Way too early to consider losing Vacant staring may discover some reflection Or may discover none Just think what you?ve done And watch it all add up Like an emptiness you?ll never fill