Myths Made Plain

[Verse 1] If you're wondering how we landed here You were watching the waves and drinking beer You don't even remember standing up Truly, I don't either At some point you waded to your waist As you slipped further out the stakes were raised Finally you were surrounded, and for what? A water darker and deeper [Verse 2] In 1997 I became myself And 20 minutes later I began to melt The cycle I get used to in the course of time The shifting definitions that comprise a life The people I become and the people I don't recognize [Verse 3] If you're wondering who arranged the mess Some exceptions were made to grant, I guess While we all let the peak of the parade The underbelly went lethal In 2007 tried to build a bridge Between how I was living and how I could live Tricked myself into thinking I'd done enough Once I got across I didn't blow it up Yeah, I closed some lanes, all it really takes is one Opening to tear apart all your works So fine you are, delicate un-achieve all your half-philosophy Style points, blind belief a whirling perpetuity The ocean warm that knows you did the same before So in 2017 we did away with facts All negotiation with a battle axe The gruesome ideology is center shame American identity was laid to waste We're backlit and exposed Sugar stripped and it's made clean The people I become The people I can't replicate