Your voices, still crawl my mind. I ignore them, hoping they all will fade in time.
None claim that life is easy, open idle hands be empty.
My choices remain my own. No difference, reminds me that nothing is set in stone.
Oh source of such frustration.
Crawling, crying, screaming, bleeding, asking for some kind of meaning why.
Pushed, past the point of failure.
We’re not asking
You speak is if we had a choice
We’re not laughing
Still talking as if you had a voice
I'm not laughing, no fucking way
Taking the pain all in stride
I'm not dying, no not today
If only a matter of pride
Day in, day out. It’s time to reign in. Free from this fear fueled mind drought.
No one ever said life would be easy, we all struggle to pull our own weight.
Day star, praying. Hasn't your radar picked up this need of changing.
No one ever said this wasn't crazy. All the signs seem to point just the same.
Crawling, crying, screaming, bleeding, asking for some kind of meaning why.
Pushed past the point of failure.
We’re not asking
You speak as if we had a choice
We’re not offering
Still talking as if you had voice
I'm not laughing, no fucking way
Taking the pain all in stride
I'm not dying, no not today
If only a matter of pride
I wanted more than hope.
I wanted more. More than just spoken word.
I wanted more for you then to hate being broken.
Ain't this strange the games we play
When nothing's changed, still we run away.
So insane, the claims we make
When nothing's changed, still we run away.
I wanted more than hope.
I wanted more. More than just spoken word.
I wanted more for you then to hate being broken.
Accept the pain and don't complain
Pretend there's change, pretend you're sane
And every time I fall face down I face this dilemma.
I just can’t lie, I just won’t try, I've faced this forever.
We play the game though nothing's changed, it all stays the same.
We still pretend we think we can mend this endless circus.
We’re not asking
You speak is if we had a choice
We’re not laughing
Still talking as if you had a voice
I'm not laughing, no fucking way
Taking the pain all in stride
I'm not dying, no not today
If only a matter of pride
credits
from Conversion,
released September 24, 2016
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