The Buttress - The Attic lyrics

[Verse 1] I've been here for so long That my shadow left an imprint on the wall From the same place where I cast it every day until dawn From the same chair, I'm writing the same song And I wrote all night But I erased all of it cause all of it was wrong And they say that as the day is long I'm honest And I promised myself that I would never belong To no man or place Neither time nor space - No case can contain me Or tame me I'm the one who makes it great This room was dead before it let me in And many men - Many many many men Have came and went With pain and sweat Looking at the sky with tired eyes We're screaming at the sun and we're begging for time Yes, I am counted among them I'm one of them And we all want the same thing, and that thing being - That my rhymes went the hardest My ideas went the farthest When I die I'm not forgotten ... And they'll call me an artist [Verse 2] This place giveth and it taketh away I wanna stay and stay awake for each and every wooden plank I've counted them all and I call them all by name Standing in the hall with wide eyes wondering when it will rain And in its warm embrace I've forgotten the time, blind Eternal yearning mindf** of the forever thoughtless mind No it's not your calling cause it's mine To become important, a mortal giving form to the sublime Amen, world without end I'm trying to inspire awe and veneratioin in the hearts of many men But I'm unsure where this place ends and I begin And if a person could be like a place, then would that person be my friend? Or does it really matter at all... Whether this person makes the place or that person built the wall Whether I succeed or if I fall Whether I can put it into words or if I use no words at all [Chorus] Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song? Why is it me singing the same song?