It drives us from our path and suffocates As we are gnashing teeth into the arms that press us down We try to recourse, redirect before we are run into the ground But it tears at our limbs as we breathe the disease that is our all We have tried to untie but misled Reduced to sink into the coarse our heads filled with last lights encore Eyes turned over as we have but run into the ground Drive down a fix to a burden we have bore Delve deep, it has it has a grasp that tightens as we grow We've got the purpose of a vestigial organism at best While you've got the tact of a cinder block With the honesty of a bleached out blood stain We're as bloodless as limbless mannequins We all make a mark, like undetected accelerants Like last week's obituaries