We Are What You Say

You gotta sink to learn to swim
 These are the rules that they teach
 And they want you to live
 Apologies will never do and I know that way too well
 Brought down by somebody else's lack of education
 Shouldn't be you that it hurts
 But I took all the advice that I could take
 Before I thought to give up
 
 I bet you thought I'd give up
 And this is what they told me
 These are the lies you gotta believe
 They'll give you everything to lose if you disagree
 Apologies are over used and I'd be cutting the line way too thin
 I'm aware of this bitter behavior
 I lost myself somewhere I never wanted to be
 Now it's time to start all over, we were held to the light
 But we never went blind
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back down kid, back down kid
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back out now, back out now
 We are what you say
 We are not what you think
 Too lonely to survive the loss
 That was staring back with bloodshot eyes
 I almost fell below the ground that I was standing on
 Oh no, you said it yourself, you're disappointed
 And I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that
 I was a failure
 A failure
 But not matter how low
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back down kid, back down kid
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back out now
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back down kid
 Back down kid
 Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
 You can't back out now
 Back out now
 We are what you say