Exit

Faced the crowd
 In a blind mirror
 Skull smashed headfirst
 Against this wall of inner need
 I knew this fall
 Would send it all down towards the lights
 And they will question once more
 From their unscathed towers
 I'll answer:
 Go on and force
 Your one-bit truth until the end
 I'll swallow every bullet
 That rips through the hull
 A sheltered life crawls forward, vomits
 And folds around twin blades
 I pull it back like last time
 Yet it never cuts through all the way
 I always have to take it hostage
 Whenever I feel
 I find no way to begin
 It always bled from within
 They fed the dreams so it could rip
 Whenever I feel
 I find no way to begin
 I've grown content in this dream
 I'll let those others take and give
 And if I had:
 Leaned forward and let their downpours mask
 Preburned fields growing supports for a future set in past
 Every reflection would lie and every breath would climb blind
 Toward their shallow corpse of a self-lit sky
 And just its weight would be enough
 To send it all off the edge towards that same undecided mind
 Towards that self-absorbed conscience that only screams
 So predictably:
 "Someone burn me an exit"
 Stormed their black-rise tower looming past
 Drove them all out into a corner
 Of the memory gridmap
 Airlocked and silenced, I kept holding back
 Finally burned them all alive
 Before cutting off my own blood supply
 I knew they had it bypassed to a bloodthirsty human mass
 That infested with a false promise of a chance
 And held a freedom already dried up and past