Garden Statement

The traffic's backed for miles

On these quiet suburban roads

While the rubber necking strangers

Are dying to see this victim's wounds

Cause he's all alone

With his notebooks and poems

In this open grave where he wrote

All of his secrets that became his lyrics

With no intent to show anyone

[Chorus]

And we give and we give

But its all for nothing

Its all for nothing

We try to resist but I give

Everything and its all for nothing

So the panic sets and cycles

His mind for restless sleep

While the blood sucking leeches

Contaminate every line they read

Just leave him alone in this dark room

This white sheet tightly wrapped cocoon

Cause its no secret

I fucking need this

Like I don't need anyone

[Chorus x2]

It's like I'm falling asleep with my eyes open

Shutting down and off the lights

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing

Still I wouldn't try to fight

I've fallen asleep with my eyes open

(and you'll lie to all your friends)

(about sights you never saw)

Shutting down and off the lights

(and you'll preach to all the press)

(about what you don't know at all)

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing

Still I wouldn't try to fight

So let me drown so I can breathe again

I'm through choking and suffocating

On alter egos and alter motives

Which weigh you down and take control of

The way you are and the things that you need

The life you live and the dreams that you dream

Distort and blur all in slow motion

They broke you down and now you're broken

And it's sadder than the saddest movie

I ever saw but with out the beauty

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring

I lost all interest and I stopped wearing

These plastic smiles I'll wash my hands clean

I'll forget that you forgot about me

And I'll live the life, the big city feeling

Cause it's better than suburban dreaming

Living off the friends that hate you

Who talk shit on me

Like I don't know who my real friends are

Anymore no I don't know you anymore

And it's sadder than the saddest movie

I ever saw but without the beauty

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring

[Singing in background]

(spill the ink and spill your guts again)

Spill the ink and spill your guts again

I've fallen asleep with my eyes open

(and you'll lie to all your friends)

(about sights you never saw)

Shutting down and off the lights

(and you'll preach to all the press)

(about what you don't know at all)

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing

Still I wouldn't try to fight