When the road has gone too far ahead and the hot summer air turns to fall
And the sweet summer breeze fills with casualties on a boy who thought he'd been through it all
And the lake how it looks like a storm, and the forest he knew it has trails that are worn
Down by killers who come and they go, and the boy how he begs for the snow
When the sun has hid behind the clouds and the beatings leave the boy's face and heart red
So he cried out to space for a familiar face as he begs for sleep in his prison bed
And his head fills with bullets and cars, and the dreams that he had feel as close as the stars
Now the stars they laugh at his breath, since his screams were cut off by his death
As his lungs fill with fire as he holds his breath so long his chest begins to sting
As underwater legs run he is asked where it's from and he says "Just about everything"
So he hides from the monster downstairs, and the one who was there when he cut his hair
Though her words are like knives in his chest, the boy loves her and wishes her best
As the songs that he heard from before fill his head with memories from all his past lives
Make him cry make him sing make him miss everything that he had 'fore he wished he had died
The blood on his fingers from his eyes stain the water around his goodbyes
And he hates that he knows that he's nowhere to go 'cept the arms that he used to call home
And the mask that he wears, it wears thin, as he fights through a war that he'll let the dark win
Dripping hands run down bloody walls, and he cries oh how the mighty fall