We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank We raised our children on dead end roads waiting to d**h in the summer win 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 d**h 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