The Strength To Go On

Welcome home, while away
They have tampered with the locks
And your things they rearranged
"We propose...a better way"
Said the note they left behind
In their wake of disarray

You fell in place
Don't fall asleep
They'll find us here
I know a place, to disappear
As a voice proclaimed

Let us cry, let us be
Let us open up our hearts
Without fear of anything
Faith alone's all we need
To traverse this burning bridge
Now before it gets too late

You claim, "it's fine"
But the heart reveals
What smiles betray
Your sad, sad eyes
Gave you away
Don't you know

Our shoulders bear an awful weight
But still we trudge on just the same
Our colors run then leave a stain
They blacken our once honest name
How can we argue, tell me
Over the fury and the fire
How many times can we tell you that we
Are not like you, we see right through
The poor disguise that fails to fool
The wary eye is trained on you

What we are is the sum of 1000 lies
What we know is almost nothing at all
But we are what we are till the day we die
Or till we don't have the strength to go on
Till we don't have the strength to go on
Yeah, till we don't have the strength to go on.

-Rise Against-