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I’ve been asleep for most of my life

To the things that I want, I am chained tight

It’s true that the punishment must fit the crime

Some call this living, I’m just doing time

With lungs filled with water or lungs filled with smoke

We must learn to sing the words we once spoke

In the midst of our seasons wearing death like a crown

We must learn to walk lightly on delicate ground

As the earth turns below us on an axis of time

That only moves forward as we beg to rewind

The tape at the end of our vaporous lives

Will it show what we wanted or that we just learned to tell a few lies

While we were alive

I’ve been asleep for most of my life

To the pain I have caused, I remain blind

I’ve played the victim one too many times

I have my reasons, but it still isn’t right

Like cathedrals built on slow sinking sand

So is the life of a resentful man

We must learn to walk backwards through our passage of time

And forsake our demons and idols alike

'Cause if your god’s in a building than your god is a stone

And I’m sure there are things that I’ll never know

But despite how far I wander I can still hear them sing

The ballad of life and of death it is ringing

What is known is not for us

Does not the mother guide the son

With speaking up I am done

Quiet my heart quiet my tongue

Come speak in the silence