Garden Statement

The traffic's backed for miles
 On these quiet suburban roads
 While the rubber necking strangers
 Are dying to see this victim's wounds
 'Cause he's all alone
 With his notebooks and poems
 In this open grave where he wrote
 All of his secrets that became his lyrics
 With no intent to show anyone
 And we give and we give
 But its all for nothing
 Its all for nothing
 We try to resist that I gave
 Everything but its all for nothing
 So the panic sets and cycles
 His mind for restless sleep
 While the blood sucking leeches
 Contaminate every line they read
 Just leave him alone in this dark room
 This white sheet tightly wrapped cocoon
 'Cause its no secret
 I fucking need this
 Like I don't need anyone
 We give and we give
 But its all for nothing
 Its all for nothing
 We try to resist that I gave
 Everything but its all for nothing
 We give and we give
 But its all for nothing
 Its all for nothing
 We try to resist that I gave
 Everything but its all for nothing
 It's like I've fallen asleep with my eyes open
 Shutting down and off the lights
 'Cause after all of this it's all or nothing
 Still I wouldn't try to fight
 I've fallen asleep with my eyes open
 (And you'll lie to all your friends about sights you never saw)
 Shutting down and off the lights
 (And you'll preach to all the press about what you don't know at all)
 'Cause after all of this it's all or nothing
 Still I wouldn't try to fight
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 So let me drown so I can breathe again
 I'm through choking and suffocating
 On alter egos and alter motives
 Which weigh you down and take control of
 The way you are and the things that you need
 The life you live and the dreams that you dream
 Distort and blur all in slow motion
 They broke you down and now you're broken
 And it's sadder than the saddest movie
 I ever saw but without the beauty
 So I stopped watching, I stopped caring
 I lost all interest and I stopped wearing
 These plastic smiles I'll wash my hands clean
 I'll forget that you forgot about me
 And I'll live the life, the big city feeling
 It's better than suburban dreaming
 Living off the friends that hate you
 Who talk shit on me
 Like I don't know who my real friends are
 Anymore, no, I don't know you anymore
 And it's sadder than the saddest movie
 I ever saw but without the beauty
 So I stopped watching, I stopped caring
 Spill the ink and spill your guts again
 I've fallen asleep with my eyes open
 (And you'll lie to all your friends about sights you never saw)
 Shutting down and off the lights
 (And you'll preach to all the press about what you don't know at all)
 'Cause after all of this it's all or nothing
 Still I wouldn't try to fight