Too Loose

oo many lies when I was seventeen
 And now I'm keeping up time with you
 Short sounds of apocalypse
 And my world's torn out of view
 It's always the same
 They want to lock you down inside
 They won't let you try
 I realize it's all the same when the lights dim down to pray
 Through the eyes we paralyze but the world won't stop today
 Did you rise for someone else?
 Were you afraid to be yourself?
 We've waited all our lives for the chance to come undone
 We spit asides and we ruminate
 About the false sense of it all
 Life's short and the spirit falters
 All the weak will do is crawl
 In broken time
 To conclusions we've assigned
 We sacrifice and burn
 To steal convention all away
 We try to paint the future
 Somehow we sterilize today
 With an audience complicit
 We change the lies to gold
 In our septic disaffection
 Still function as we're told
 As we're told