Watch Me Sink

(álbum: The Things We Carry - 2006)

A breaking in spirit, a breaking in promise, a breaking in me
How can I find the peace inside me, in a world I can see
That's taking and taking all for ourselves, taking and taking
And it's dragging me down, deeper and deeper
Watch me sink like a stone
In a sea of selfishness
Where me is more and you is less

The vanity, it becomes insanity
We eat the shit that's fed to us
We stomach it, and we embellish it
And we confuse our love with lust
Cant we find another way?
The way that goes against the grain
Abstain, the grain
Abstain, abstain, abstain, abstain
The grain

The ugliness, licentiousness
The love that is just skin deep
Please get me out
Before I become just a memory of what I used to be
Get me the fuck out

We're deaf and blind to a age's cry
We refuse to fucking hear
Not learning to grow, just losing the one
I used to see in the fucking mirror

The egoists, the narcissists
The shallow waters wade in
Please get me out
Before I become just a memory
Of what I used to be
Get me the fuck out

"Of a world that's doing its best
Night and day, to make me everybody else"

Please take me out
Of a world without any heart
Take me out
When they see my hope and rip it apart
Take me out
Of a world we built to serve our selfish-fucking-selves
Can you tell me
Where does love fit in?

Remember what love is?