I’m tired of waking up just to go back to sleep
I’ve been tossing and turning, avoiding my dreams
I kill enough hours to mortally wound the day
But by nightfall the day and I are just the same
I’m gonna start a punk band ten years too late
I’m gonna throw off the yoke of the way I was raised
I’m gonna meet the Chief Justice and I’m gonna spit in his face
And God willing I’ll be locked up or taken away
You’re an open book with torn out pages
So I guess I could never read you anyway
We’re all singing the same melody
The same old turn of phrase
Buy your parents’ house
Settle down and earn your pay
I don’t know what it is I learned
That keeps me so afraid
But I take all of my pills
Though they aren’t helping anyway
I deserted the frontlines before the shots ever rang
I’m a coward, so warfare was never my thing
But I’ll get down in the trenches and finally risk it all
And when the revolution comes I hope I’m last against the wall
And a hero’s death sounds nice on paper
But until we know for sure, let’s just wait
I don’t know how we got so loud
I’m hoping we can turn it down
We’ll have to keep on trying to breathe
Until there’s nothing left to do but bleed
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