We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank We raised our children on dead end roads waiting to death in the summer wind Looking for answers that I was never meant to find I swallow my tongue in defeat Before I drown face down in the street Waiting for the ambulance to arrive I saved myself from you gagging to death on these prayers My agony is self-inflicted Burn my body at the stake My love in effigy My songs are gasoline in the mouth of a coward shouting "fire" I swallow my questions down in fear Before I know too much of myself trying to explain what keeps me falling to my knees. The burden of living proof, I saved myself from you. In case of a new emergency, I saved myself from you. When nothing moves in the wake of regret, I saved myself from you. I saved myself from the arms of corruption.