You gotta sink to learn to swim These are the rules that they teach And they want you to live Apologies will never do and I know that way too well Brought down by somebody else's lack of education Shouldn't be you that it hurts But I took all the advice that I could take Before I thought to give up I bet you thought I'd give up And this is what they told me These are the lies you gotta believe They'll give you everything to lose if you disagree Apologies are over used and I'd be cutting the line way too thin I'm aware of this bitter behavior I lost myself somewhere I never wanted to be Now it's time to start all over, we were held to the light But we never went blind Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back down kid, back down kid Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back out now, back out now We are what you say We are not what you think Too lonely to survive the loss That was staring back with bloodshot eyes I almost fell below the ground that I was standing on Oh no, you said it yourself, you're disappointed And I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I was a failure A failure But not matter how low Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back down kid, back down kid Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back out now Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back down kid Back down kid Oh oh oh, oh oh oh You can't back out now Back out now We are what you say