A Place Where I Can Breathe

I only wanted such a little thing

Only simplicity

And now that I am who I was taught to be

You have abandoned me

But I held so tightly to every word you said

That's the price of the respect you've always demanded

And all those things I've gathered through the years

Have no value here

I need to find a place where I can breathe

Somewhere high above this empty wasteland

Where the air is clear

And I need to find it while i still can

In a world like this

How can you wonder at my sadness?

Now I hope for something beautiful

But I feel trapped under your waves of wreckage

And if I cannot claw my own way through

I fear one day I will be just like you

I need to find a place where I can breathe

Somewhere high above this empty wasteland

Where the air is clear

And I need to find it while I still can

In this land of vacant stars

In the backseats of desperate cars

In single-mother topless bars

We ache for something more

Your sons and your daughters are unwilling martyrs

To devils, priests, and other thieves

And their wars and rumors of war

I need a handgun and a hand grenade

To protect me from those who keep me safe

Yet I remember your straight face

Some day this will all be yours

I need to find a place where I can breathe

Somewhere high above this empty wasteland

Where the air is clear

And while I still can

I need to find a place where I can breathe

Somewhere high above this empty wasteland

Where the air is clear

And I need to find it while I still can

While I still can