I'm caught up in the jaws of life

What can heal can also tear you up inside

Writing down your own anthem

You don't like the older one

I would stand at attention for less than minimum

Wage your own forgotten wars

Trade honor for canker sores

Ghostly pride with matching tours

You're childish without the joy

I know that I said I would change

I know that I haven't changed

A shoulder to lean on and then break/embrace

I'm barely breathing with my status day to day

Caught off guard by innocence

I cross my heart you influences pull you down

I swear it's not the fault of mine or of the fault of anyone

So tell me what the guilt feels like

Are you swallowed in the jaws of life

When you strip people down

you'll see how they don't need their cover

Is it clear and defined when fists from a simple conflict rise

And we turn into monsters we thought were once extinct.

(I could tell you things to shock you too)