I remember when the red lens of life was paler my sea of bitter just a puddle in the distance And my raft wings Blinded from the things that were wrong By the briteness of my own eyes Looking only at the can and can'ts and not the whys Doing my part with a clear conscienceΒ Β And a pure heart The deck of opportunity stacked for my demise And those I adored to rise This debt I owed This restitution bestowed A diguise of greed And power's need The future to tender There's no surrender To the chains of gender The crimson of my visions hue Grows as deep as my sea