Night At Arms

Should I learn to sink before I learn to float
 Suffering is hope and none of us can cope
 Contentment is stuffing little rocks inside of my throat
 With no signs of revolt
 I broke down the walls
 Burned down the drawbridge
 Jumped over the moat
 While the serfs all applauded
 Fought ice ‘ Fought snow
 Until April's rain unthawed ‘em both
 And left me insane and broke
 To nap on a peaceful coast
 Can't take what we don't show ya
 Can't kill what we love most
 Put bruises on our shoulders
 Bloody up that pretty nose now
 No telling how dangerous it is
 Til you put that poison on your lips
 Each choice as simple as a kiss
 Each kiss will bring us all closer
 To the fact that obstacles and cracks
 Litter every path ‘ ain't no turning back
 I can't work my mask ‘ loosen up these straps
 I never chose to be this close to my mishaps
 You don't understand ‘ I don't want your plan ‘
 I just wanna build the muscle memory that's necessary to
 devise a way to break the chain on the gate of the cemetery
 Days chasing me in waves
 I won't let ‘em win
 Never let ‘em catch me coming out my skin
 Sitting in the sand ‘ Blowing in the wind
 Feeling every step from heel to toe
 The twin sets of my footprints
 Never did exist
 Swear I saw ‘em is there something that I missed
 Something I insisted on becoming before
 the running became a substitute for bliss
 Wishing wells seem to say
 They want the easy way out
 But they need to pay back what they didn't win
 Filthy has never been
 So close to cleanliness
 Can't take what we don't show ya
 Can't kill what we love most
 Put bruises on our shoulders
 Bloody up that pretty nose now
 No telling how dangerous it is
 Til you put that poison on your lips
 Each choice as simple as a kiss
 Each kiss will bring us all closer
 Oars on the surface of the water ‘ My arms are soar
 I'm cold ‘ I'm a monster ‘ So I'm told
 Could you make me warm?
 It's wet ‘ under feet
 Try to run ‘ but I sink
 It's a dream right? That's what it seems like
 Couldn't be right ‘ I don't mean no alarm
 Hidden in the soft creases of my palm
 Lines are deciding where they will begin
 After every end something starts to stir
 Strange as this has been ‘ Everything's a blur
 Wishing wells seem to say they want the easy way
 But what they mean to say is things fall apart ‘ Leave ‘em be
 Thieves'll come to steal the seasons ‘ Rob the lucid from the dream
 Just beneath the broken pieces are the sequences between
 They can keep ‘em ‘ I don't need ‘em
 There not mine ‘ I'll be fine
 Left behind to find my way the only way I'll ever find it
 Love the ocean ‘ Be an island
 Be the sea ‘ I'll be Japan
 Come with me ‘ Let's leave this place and take some secrets to replant
 Build a bridge ‘ Burn it down
 Learn to swim ‘ Flirt with drowning
 Break the crooked road in half and
 take the path we just found out about
 Can't take what we don't show ya
 Can't kill what we love most
 Put bruises on our shoulders
 Bloody up that pretty nose now
 No telling how dangerous it is
 Til you put that poison on your lips
 Each choice as simple as a kiss
 Each kiss will bring us all closer