Ordinary Life

We saw our future lying in the road
 Red spreading through the pavement
 Steam rising in the cold
 We haven't been this dead in all our lives
 Sometimes I cannot tell if we survived
 Are we ghosts drifting in this ocean
 of what we're sold as ordinary life
 I was told that I should have emotion
 How did I force myself to live this lie
 A paper cut across my paper heart
 You're standing there indifferent while I am torn apart
 We haven't been this dead in all our lives
 Sometimes I cannot tell if we survived
 It doesn't feel like change will ever come
 Cut off the serpent's head just to spite the tongue
 Are we ghosts drifting through the ocean
 of what we're sold as ordinary life
 I was told that I should have emotion
 How did I force myself to live this lie
 Steam rising in the cold
 Red spreading through the pavement
 I realized in that moment - bodies lying in the road
 This was not my path
 Are we ghosts drifting in this ocean
 of what we're sold as ordinary life
 I was told that I should have emotion
 How did I force myself to live this lie