I live down here, with my sandpaper ceiling and walls to my ear I have, not one, but two reasons for living, the second's unclear
Did you ever think trying to leave wake Wouldn't be a strange odyssey? Try to ride the waves of concrete. What do we believe? Staring at the screens, drowning in the green Why do we, throw away the same things that they eat?
Sometime will the sunshine wash over my skin, And the world that I'm living in bends over backwards to keep us all occupied I've been gone ---
I live inside, and the blisters of solitude swallow my hide I have not won, but I'm a long way from Nothingness and that is where I started from.
Did you ever think trying to leave wake Wouldn't be a strange odyssey? Try to ride the waves of concrete. What do we believe? Staring at the screens, drowning in the green Why do we, throw away the same things that they eat?
Sometime will the sunshine wash over my skin, And the world that I'm living in bends over backwards to keep us all occupied I've been gone ---
Counting stars on my ceiling and building a wall That I use to hang pictures of what I once was And the reason I've asked you here is not what you think It was only to hold me up so I don't fall down
And the lives that they've promised us - nothing,never And the riddles they told us, well I don't get it Just a hand is enough to keep us together On the outside everything's fine, we look Way down inside, way down again
Brother I'm wasted, Brother I can't believe I'm alive I can't catch the wind, but I've chased it Brother I'm here again
Carry this thought with you even when I'm not around All your patience will give you whatever you need And the lives we made for ourselves we deliver And we stand cuz we've learned not to crawl And the cold breath of lonliness makes me shiver Cuz without us, we're nothing at all, we look…
Sometime will the sunshine wash over my skin, And the world that I'm living in bends over backwards to keep us all occupied I've been gone ---