The Illusion of Control (Idlewhile, Steven Phoenix and Landon Gow) Lyrics: killer walkin in the night dogs are trampin thru the rye at the river they always lose the scent an oak tree with her enormous boughs annie lets her long hair down the flowers match the pattern of your dress and its time time to feel out the reins and its time to shake down your soul and its time everything has been arranged everyone likes to believe they have control brick and mortor mud and stone stacks and rows of 2x4s 6 by 6 by 3 feet across the explosion heard at 4 am by dawn we all were born again a voice fell like thunder in the dark and its time time to feel out the reins and its time to shake down your soul and its time everything has been arranged everyone likes to believe they have control its all in your head the voices with their pestering questions like school days waiting for the reccess bell its all in your head the first girl who kissed you on the lips outside the gymnasium made you promise not to tell its all in your head those solemn vows whispered in ears you always found easy to keep but hard to fake its all in your head the boat capsized as the people stared watched your hopes sink slowly to the bottom of the lake its all in your head its all in your head questions from the deaf answers from the dead its all in your head its all in your head questions from the deaf answers from the dead and its time time to feel out the reins and its time to shake down your soul and its time ...