a Love Letter to Detroit

Another hard winter went and came
 In the suburbs in a box with no knife
 You're sleeping still with your choices and your wives
 In an office building insulated from the outside
 Next to your mother you lay, a perfect stranger beside
 Wake up, you're dreaming again Some more hard truths God given a face
 And there's just no way to know how long this will last
 But just freeze everything and see if it'll pass
 Or, or put it all on hold and see what takes
 You're in an alley forgotten you're not surrounded by likes
 Wake up, you're dreaming again And this is
 your nightmare This is the scene that you play
 This is the dream that you have When
 you know it's time to go and run away
 And this is important
 This may really be happening to you
 I'm watching you sleep Something has to get through
 I keep making rings, these rings around you
 Wake up, wake up Wake up, you're dreaming again
 Ringing in one more New Year's Eve all alone
 Heading to hills and the weeds are still overgrown
 Mark it another year that's fallen right into the
 cracks Are we learning anything? We will be able to come back?
 Well, the fear, it keeps us
 Wake up, you're dreaming again And here's
 to a building Cheers to a certain tougher skin
 You keep getting up from where you're at
 And starting over, and over, and over again
 The rock has no stop, stay frozen We will find you where you're at
 Lay there until you're bored to death And it's time to plan
 I hope you can make it Or make it back
 Wake up, you're dreaming again And this is your
 life now These are the choices that you've made
 This is the way that you feel in your heart The more it breaks
 I wonder if it's all real There's no easy way to rise and win
 One day it won't be this way So try to take it all in
 Take your time There's a trap and
 these circles that you happened to tie on
 Wake up, you're screaming Wake up, you're dreaming
 And this is your nightmare This is the scene that you play
 This is the dream that you have When
 you know it's time to go and run away
 And this is important This may really be happening to you
 I'm watching you sleep Something has to get through
 I keep making rings, these rings around you
 Wake up, wake up Wake up, wake up You're dreaming again