Surrender Is Treason

At the first sign of daylight you came to the door

You'd fallen so fast you smashed on the floor

You said that you kissed everything good goodbye

And you laid down your head on the concrete and cried

You cried through the evening you cried through the night

You asked for forgiveness with all of your might

You kept wide awake heard the voices all say

You must be what they want or be who you say

In the mid-afternoon of the late summer sun

You were bending and breaking and coming undone

You went to the brink and you walked on the wire

And you slipped and you fell in a red lake of fire

Burning and bleeding you danced in the coals

Wasting your flesh to salvage your soul

Melting away in the choices you made

You can be what they want or be who you say

Now it is late in the night and your dreading the day

And your killing yourself in the usual ways

Thinking you found some new reason to try

As you choke on that reason you found and you die

You call for a doctor you call for a nurse

You ask for a cure but they give you a curse

Running away from the choice that they gave

You can be what they want or be who you say