The traffic's backed for miles

On these quiet suburban roads

While the rubber necking strangers

Are dying to see these victims wounds

Cause he's all alone

With his notebooks and poems

In this open grave where he wrote

All of his secrets

That became his lyrics

With no intent to show anyone



[Chorus:]

And we give, and we give

But it's all for nothing

Its all for nothing

We try to resist,

But I gave everything

And its all for nothing



So the panic sets and cycles

His mind for restless sleep

And while the blood-sucking leeches

Contaminate every line they read

Just leave him alone in this dark room

This white sheet, his tightly wrapped cocoon



Cause its no secret

I fucking need this

Like I don't need anyone



[Chorus x2]



It's like I'm falling asleep with my eyes open

shutting down and off the lights

cause after all of this it's all or nothing

still I wouldn't try to ...



I've fallen asleep with my eyes open

(and you'll lie to all your friends)

(about sights you never saw)

Shutting down and off the lights

(and you'll preach to all the press)

(about what you don't know at all)

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing

Still I wouldn't try to fight



So let me drown so I can breathe again

I'm through choking and suffocating

On alter egos and alter motives

Which weigh you down and take control of

The way you are and the things that you need

The life you live and the dreams that you dream

Distort and blur all in slow motion

They broke you down and now your broken

(Spill the ink and spill your guts again)*16 times in the background*

And it's sadder than the saddest movie

I ever saw but without the beauty

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring

I've lost all interest and I stopped wearing

These plastic smiles, I've washed my hands clean

Forget that you forgot about me

And I'm living life, the big city feeling

It's better than suburban dreaming

Living off the friends that hate you

Talk shit on me like I don't know who

My real friends are anymore, no,

I dont know you anymore

And it's sadder than the saddest movie

I ever saw, but without the beauty

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring



Spill the ink and spill your guts again!



I've fallen asleep with my eyes open

(and you'll lie to all your friends)

(about sights you never saw)

Shutting down and off the lights

(and you'll preach to all the press)

(about what you don't know at all)

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing

Still I wouldn't try to fight