Student Driver

Rise

I’m everything I am and everything

I have been brings me here to stand against you

I bled my heart, these sleeves stained red

I don’t think it matters anymore

I have made my own decision

You should leave this alone

You say you want the best, but in whose best interest?

I don’t want conflict. I made my choice

I walked away from who I was, and it brought me further from you

I have made my own decision

You should leave this alone

Leave it alone

As you admire what you’re trying to do

Hanging ‘said’ beautiful pictures in sullen rooms

As if your hand can shelter me from the night

A shadow’s a shadow, but in yours resent hides

And she blooms, shifting foundation core, shifting the poles, bringing life

The newest we’ve ever known

Blow out the candle, the vigil ends, the splinters mend

Look in the face of a dear dead friend

I will be raised up and I’m not looking to oppression for a cause

I read the braille of your unwritten laws

Breathe in the exhale of all things lost

So I can see myself without the tint of your vision

Bad architects’ fetish throbs for collision

And in the wake of disasters

So small you could walk by them and not notice at all

The ripples will inherit the earth

Rise

I have made my own decision

You should leave this alone

Leave it alone