Shouting Fire in a Crowded Room

We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank

We raised our children on dead end roads

waiting to death in the summer win

Looking for answers that I was never meant to find

I swallow my tongue in defeat before I drown

face down in the street waiting for the ambulance to arrive

I saved myself from you

Gagging to death on these prayers

my agony is self-inflicted

Burn my body at the stake

My love in effigy

My songs are gasoline in the mouth of a coward shouting "Fire"

I swallow my questions down in fear before I know

Too much of myself, trying to explain what keeps me falling to my knees.

The burden of living proof, I saved myself from you.

In case of a new emergency, I saved myself from you.

When nothing moves in the wake of regret, I saved myself from you.

I saved myself from the arms of corruption..