Shame

Shame in your eyes

With your mouth telling lies

And the guilt in your mind still grows

(Round and round we go)

See the world in black and white

All these colors just hurt your eyes

Separate yourself from all of this

Just grit your teeth and fall in line

Repetition is the hardest part

Captures your mind but never breaks your heart

And the damage is done

When you've lost everyone

Now you've gone too far

It's a long way back to where we started

We'll find another way

Just to make you feel alive again

(The weight of all that you believed written on a paper-thin sheet)

The drug will bring you back to get your fill

(This is it, the tragedy, I'll just hold on tightly to the doubt)

Did you ever have a doubt or second thought?

You might be wrong

Souls aren't meant to hide away inside our very depths

Drift along with no purpose at all

We came with heavy hearts

To claim all that's ours, but empty hands are all that we found

Just to make you feel alive again

(The weight of all that you believed written on a paper-thin sheet)

The drug will bring you back to get your fill

(This is it, the tragedy, I'll just hold on tightly to the doubt)

Did you ever have a doubt or second thought?

You might be wrong

(You might be wrong)

You might be wrong

(You might be wrong)

You might be wrong

You're blaming all my waywardness on cigarettes and booze

But I can't walk a straight line without a drink or two

Your expectations always wear me out

If I was a younger man, I'd slap those words right back into your mouth

Well if this is found then I'd rather be lost

I was born a broken man, and that's how I will end it all

The words come, your back turns, it's the last I see your face

Maybe it's just better that way

You're the hurting, you're the broken, you're the one in need of grace

You're the called-out, you're the beckoned, but your feet can't pull away

From the place that you've been planted in the ground

Now your insides are all dried up, your heart is hollowed out