We saw our future lying in the road Red spreading through the pavement Steam rising in the cold We haven't been this dead in all our lives Sometimes I cannot tell if we survived Are we ghosts drifting in this ocean of what we're sold as ordinary life I was told that I should have emotion How did I force myself to live this lie A paper cut across my paper heart You're standing there indifferent while I am torn apart We haven't been this dead in all our lives Sometimes I cannot tell if we survived It doesn't feel like change will ever come Cut off the serpent's head just to spite the tongue Are we ghosts drifting through the ocean of what we're sold as ordinary life I was told that I should have emotion How did I force myself to live this lie Steam rising in the cold Red spreading through the pavement I realized in that moment - bodies lying in the road This was not my path Are we ghosts drifting in this ocean of what we're sold as ordinary life I was told that I should have emotion How did I force myself to live this lie