If I could be the man you idolize and sensualize the wisdom 
Of the hunt capture penalize free-thinking making basing 
All who run the world and glamorize the business you can see 
I would be less the man the stand 
I take and further all who seek the twisted ethic live the ways 
And means of daring profit-sharing with 
The meek free to think of me uncaring in the race of money 
Making climbing taking chances cancel 
Those who gamble ramble on about achieving still believing 
They can make it

I cannot reach you caught between 
The love you hate, the hate you need 
'Cause all your life you've traded me 
The freedom for your amnesty 
The lock and key that keeps you tied to me 
The days you live and breathe 
The "might have been" that you pretend 
So you can cash our past in

Now I stumble slowly forward through 
The twisted ethic bore you with the details 
Of the me inept but free to push the morals fact debris 
Of scattered ashes you believe after the fashion now 
I see you for what you came to be in person fact 
And fiction evolution self-exertion charm them 
Into your submission make them tow the line 
To the letter better now than later how we stand 
And take it is the measure of the better man 
Than he who claims to be the thinker blinks to find his fame 
Is never free

I cannot reach you caught between 
The love you hate, the hate you need 
'Cause all your life you've traded me 
The freedom for your amnesty 
The lock and key that keeps you tied to me 
The days you live and breathe 
The "might have been" that you pretend 
So you can cash our past in

Now I see a life of more than beautiful
Where I can be the everything you hide

I cannot reach you caught between 
The love you hate, the hate you need 
‘Cause all your life you've traded me 
The freedom for your pride

I cannot reach you caught between 
The love you hate, the hate you need 
‘Cause all your life you've traded me 
The freedom for your amnesty 
The lock and key that keeps you tied to me 
The days you live and breathe 
The "might have been" that you pretend 
So you can cash our past in