By the Throat

Feel, don't watch the mercury drop
 Things fell apart and then I turned and stopped and said
 I can't go on anymore like this
 Save me from the tired hums
 The crooked stares of the broken ones
 One by one, let's watch them all disappear
 I used to climb up to the attic at night
 I'd end up in the basement screaming
 I'm floating above all of you now
 It feels like now they've got me by the throat
 You make it sound so sincere
 I never believe what I always hear
 I never thought I'd see the day
 They've got me by the throat
 I'm force-fed all the answers
 My paranoia spreads like cancer
 I'm so far from all my problems now
 So I packed what's left of me and I'm leaving
 These city walls are closing in on me
 Take me back before it all began
 Before I'd run and before I cared
 Sometimes my best just isn't enough
 It feels like now they've got me by the throat
 You make it sound so sincere
 I never believe what I always hear
 I never thought I'd see the day
 They've got me by the throat
 I'm force-fed all the answers
 My paranoia just spreads like cancer
 I'm so far from all my problems now
 All of the things that I've left behind
 Have washed out to sea and soon comes
 The day that a hard rain falls on me