A prince in practice moans
For the attention that he wants
But most of this town
Won't even dignify
His ignorance with a response
Left to a crowded foster home
By a 15 year old mom
Never been held in anyone's arms
When you've never been moved
It's really hard to move on
A young saleswoman
Sets up shop when the sun sets
She'll make your wildest dreams
Come true at a price
You wont forget
The sadly married
Set up alibis no harm no regret
Hoping they meet an angel
In bed that can wrestle
The devil right out of their heads
This city runs fast
No one has time
To sit with themselves
No time to look into our pain
Or see the same despair
In everyone else
It's here
It's there
It's everywhere tears soak
Each card the dealers dealt
But time taught me
How to see every second
As heaven even
Though they're perfectly disguised
As hell
And I refuse to let past bruises
Cover the light
It ain't all good
But its all good enough
So I know I'm alright
Agony is truth
It's our connection to the living
I accept it as perfection
And keep on existing in the now
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I won't let it make me frown
I'm falling but no matter
How hard I hit the ground
I'll still smile
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I won't let it make me frown
I'm falling
But no matter
How hard I hit the ground
I'll still smile
Ear to ear as
If that's all I'm here for
Despite the wars founded by the rich
Funded by the poor
Kids barely 18 are dying
So billionaires can make more
Elsewhere hungry mothers
Watch their babies starve to death
In a beat up shack
On a dirt floor
The aged professor quotes
Freedom's without a path
Now he dresses
Like a widow and preaches
Love is dead
In every class
But curiosity killed
The cat and taught
The dog in him how to act
And it burned his bridge to jill
So he tries to drown
The guilt with a bottle of jack
Self proclaimed rebels say
We must oppose the system!
You gotta take a stand!
If your not against them
Your with them!
Signs read
Support the troops
Bring em' home!
No more innocent victims!
But when a homeless veteran
Asks for spare change
Your to busy protesting to even listen
And I'm no different I live in conflict
And contradiction
But it can be so beautiful
When I don't reject
What lies within
It's beautiful
The way agony connects us
To the living
I think of the world
When I hurt
And keep on existing
In the now
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I wont let it make me frown
I'm falling but no matter
How hard I hit the ground
I'll still smile
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I won't let it make me frown
I'm falling
But no matter how hard
I hit the ground
I'll still smile.
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I won't let it make me frown
I'm falling
But no matter how hard
I hit the ground
I'll still smile.
I can only build
If I tear the walls down
Even if it breaks me
I won't let it make me frown
I'm falling
But no matter how hard
I hit the ground
I'll still smile.