Say Yes to Violence

Better selves I could organize, I just wanna look strong

If I become who I pretend to be who have I been all along?

A mild mannered Canadian, useless in our passiveness

Apologies for the northern shame, kill with gentleness

Message came from the other side; "say yes to violence"

There's a voice buried in the waves, keeps begging me to swim

Moving fast to get out in front and wash the night out of the cloth

And tell you how I got the scar as blood fillls my mouth

Hard to understand why

Half of me, it wants to be enveloped

Clouded in my vital signs, a second sight

Burning out, I'm pushing back on the fading light

Losing trust on the ledge, I know what it could steal

I'm giving in to indifference telling fantasy from real

Try to make new memory, the lens blurred I tried to rush

And felt the sweat sink through the bed the night I said too much

Hard to understand why

Half of me, it wants to be enveloped

Clouded in my vital signs, a second sight

Burning out, I'm pushing back on the fading light