Shouting Fire In A Crowded Room

We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank
 We raised our children on dead end roads waiting to death in the summer wind
 Looking for answers that I was never meant to find I swallow my tongue in defeat
 Before I drown face down in the street
 Waiting for the ambulance to arrive
 I saved myself from you gagging to death on these prayers
 My agony is self-inflicted
 Burn my body at the stake
 My love in effigy
 My songs are gasoline in the mouth of a coward shouting "fire"
 I swallow my questions down in fear
 Before I know too much of myself trying to explain what keeps me falling to my knees.
 The burden of living proof, I saved myself from you.
 In case of a new emergency, I saved myself from you.
 When nothing moves in the wake of regret, I saved myself from you.
 I saved myself from the arms of corruption.