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 papercut 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?