Stay or go, it's all the same
You call me by a different name
You act as if I've changed my heart
When I've returned back to the start
I'm just the same as I always have been
The same as I was, way back when
At times I wish I could have joined you
Avoided all the agony I would ensue
Sometimes I think you wish it too
Sometimes it's almost as if you knew
I'm stuck in place, struggling to break loose
Though all I do is set the noose

From birth I've made myself a person
Carved from flesh and bone
Society handed me the tools
And I was to choose my tone

I toyed with my aspects
My decisions and choices forming me
Whatever I became
My plan was to be free

But as I grew something changed
A sudden influence cast down
How can any resist
With the influence of society all around?

Soon it seemed it wasn't me
Controlling who I was
Every aspect of my being
Common because

I was no longer part of myself
I was no longer one of a kind
I was just another mimic of society
A clone unable to be refined

I refused to be a part of that person
I accept being one of a kind
That last thing this world needs
Is a person without their own mind

Sometimes I question if I'm already dead
If life has left me tattered and broken

Sometimes I stare unblinking into space
Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe

I don't know that I would care
If I live or die

If it's all the same to those I don't know
It should be all the same to those who know

Sometimes there are those who don't know me
I'm a puzzle even I cannot solve

As if life were given a dagger
And allowed at the pieces of me

I both hate and love solitude
A time when I am free

Because at one point or another
I must face those thoughts I hide away

So tell me if it's safe to love
Tell me if it's safe to live

Let's light fires to sear the reflection our eyes
Let's carve knives to tease our's still hearts
Let's scream foul words they tried to purge from our minds
Let's run wild in the streets they told us not to roam
Let's drink through our emotions and react despite warnings
Let's dance until we cause the Earth to tremble
Let's stroll through the path of oncoming trains
Let's balance on bridges, teetering with the waves below
Let's swim deeper than we should dare and kiss the depths
Let's run at the barrel of the gun
Let's sing to the song playing beneath the crust of the Earth
Let's sleep in the center of the road
Let's be free until the trees weep and the skies bleed
Let's be free until the petals droop and the water boils
Let's be free until the darkness glows and the silence screams
Let's be free until the air tears our lungs and the blood broils our veins
Let's be free

No one even wants you here
No one even cares
No one wants to hear your words
So don't you even dare

No one will even meet your eye
We all ignore your tears
Left alone to rot
Left alone to face your fears

No one understands how you stand strong
How their words do no pierce through
But the truth in all this is
That the one who hates is you

I used to think I was different
Beating the status quo
But now I'm not so sure
The more I see of people, the less I know

I used to read of people
Those bright and unique
More than the average
You meet on the street

I've done things in my life
To set myself apart
Just to make a difference
Just to make a start

I think we all struggle hard
To give ourselves a name
We can all be different
But we're all the same

Her skin, made of parchment
Her voice, pure as gold
Her veins, full of ink
And a heart full of holes

Her thoughts, scripted in italics
Her words, implied and untold
Her plot, full of loopholes
Her spine, battered and old

I knew that through her battered pages
That had suffered through the years
Only then would she discover
It was well worth the tears

That each hope would pass
On her tongue made of glass