Everything is for sale when you can't see the difference Between hell and your free will Ambition died when decadence walked in And shuffled your old man into decades lost And the radio hollowed out the sound of piss soaked city streets Like a paralyzed dove on the end of a breaking fist To leave us wondering how we get there with arms all marked up In stride down the center line, collapsed in a frame of what once lived Ten years prior, a young mother's colors taint bone While the world grew tired of trying We want to see you come back to life 'cause you're never yourself Until you discard what holds you hostage behind the eyes We are losing a war that we never tried to win Fuck what you learned about what it takes to find peace Another shell finds your head as your knees bend to your neck A servitude that uproots you, so you'll die as you lived Unnerved and grey, a slave to convictions erased Reclaim your soul from the claws around your throat I remain, I remain I remain, I remain I remain defiant in every step I take I remain, I remain I remain defiant in every step I take I remain, I remain I remain unbroken through daybreak's dawn To live with dignity and bow out with grace