Ballast - Louder Than Words lyrics

Can you hear it/it whispers treason/in cold apartments sweating with secrets/we could never tell/it's a foundation well laid and a debt still unpaid/destroy what destroys you/then s** out the poison/burned out, bled dry, and still on our knees/I'll take back my life from those who stole it/we have all we need to cure our disease/we just don't know how to control it/a potential untold, an unrequited love/an ending we still need to write/in a nightmare of endless destruction/i dream in an endless night/i saw the fires all go out/one by one by one by one and i could see when all hope died/reflected in your tired eyes/we all lose, have lost, never had/can you hear it/it's the dead/what is the sound of one hand clapping/a pencil scratching what is the point of my voice cracking, straining a protest song/i wont sleep until you stop dreaming/frustration chipping away at hopelessness/fighting back with a muscle the size of my fist because i need a reason to resist/like i need a heartbeat in my chest