There are songs about their liberations

and poems about enlightened minds

They talk about the fall of hope

and what is rotten in our time

They might be ways to save your soul

And lift you to a state sublime

Or merely signs of desperate people

trying not to lose their mind

Through the day you purge your feelings

Through the night you numb your grieving

You think it’s all a part of healing

But what is going on inside

Escape to places free of meaning

Stretch a smile to drown the screaming

Repeat till you can't keep on going

We’re here because we’re afraid to die

At the end of the awakening you let that something die

So when the bad things come at you

there’s nothing left inside