Swan Song

Swan Song

I Stopped Talking When I Realized

Nobody Was Listening Anymore

And The World Began To Shrink

Down To The Size It Was Before

So I Sit And Draw My Lines

So Many I've Boxed Myself Inside

And From This Life There's No Release

No Way To Win, No Way To Cheat

It Used To Make Me Feel Good

Now It Just Keeps Me From Feeling Bad

Waking Up From This Dream

I Haven't Changed But

Everyone's Gone Mad

At Least I Can Still Dream

No One Can Take That Away From Me

There's A Place For All My Fantasies

Just Let Me Go To Sleep

It's Much Too Late To Turn Back Now

Looking Back At How Far I've Come

I've Thought These Thoughts I Can't Unthink

But I've Thought More Than I've Done

I've Probed The Darkest Corners

In The Far Reaches Of My Mind

Maybe I Should Have Let It Go

And Have Left It All Behind

I Used To Think Somebody Out There

Was Going To Somehow Hear Me

But Then I Woke Up And I Began

To See The World More Clearly

And I'm Just Another Stupid Kid

Nobody Hears Trapped Inside

A Life He Never Wanted

Forced Down Upon Him Like

The Cries Of All Things Left Unsaid

Burning Their Way Inside My Head

For One Last Chance To Be Misread

Screaming Words Time Left For Dead

Leftover Thoughts Never Actualized

Thrown Away Lines Unsatisfied

Truths Silenced And Paralyzed

Worlds Yet To Be Realized

Jaded, Angry, Bitter And Burned

Hurt, For What It's Worth

Examined Life Still Nothing Learned

And Cast Unto This Earth

The Last Fading Glimmer Of Hope Has Died

Burned Right Out Before Our Eyes

Mindfucked And Cynical

Mad At The World

Everything We've Known, Is Wrong Still

We Forget About The Lies And Carry On

Everything We've Known, Is Wrong

Everything We Belived In, Now Is Gone

And In The Absence Of The Truth

Comes The Death Of Our Youth

All Ideals, Desires And Dreams

Slip Away, Lost Between The Seams

The World Hasn't Ears For Me

Nor Eyes, Nor The Sensibility

The World Hasn't Words For Me

I Only Have Words Of Frivility

So I Lay Here Before You Now

And Pour Out All That's Left

And When I'm Drained I Hope You'll Find

Something You Can't Forget

Like A Man Who Shuts Himself Away

From A World That Doesn't Care

He Sits And Writes Alone These Words

Words He'll Never Share

They Make Less Sense As Time Goes By

And With A Final Snear

He Closes The Book One Last Time

And Begins To Disappear