Garden Statement Lyrics - Life In Dreaming - Hidden In Plain View

The traffic's backed for miles 

On these quiet suburban roads 

While the rubber necking strangers 

Are dying to see these victims wounds 

Cause he's all alone 

With his notebooks and poems 

In this open grave where he wrote 

All of his secrets 

That became his lyrics 

With no intent to show anyone 

[Chorus:] 

And we give, and we give 

But it's all for nothing 

Its all for nothing 

We try to resist, 

But I gave everything 

And its all for nothing 

So the panic sets and cycles 

His mind for restless sleep 

And while the blood-sucking leeches 

Contaminate every line they read 

Just leave him alone in this dark room(tightly wrapped cocoon) 

This white sheet, his tightly wrapped cocoon 

Cause its no secret 

I fucking need this 

Like I don't need anyone 

[Chorus x2] 

It's like I'm falling asleep with my eyes open 

shutting down and off the lights 

cause after all of this it's all or nothing 

still I wouldn't try to ... 

I've fallen asleep with my eyes open 

(and you'll lie to all your friends) 

(about sights you never saw) 

Shutting down and off the lights 

(and you'll preach to all the press) 

(about what you don't know at all) 

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing 

Still I wouldn't try to fight 

So let me drown so I can breathe again 

I'm through choking and suffocating 

On alter egos and alter motives 

Which weigh you down and take control of 

The way you are and the things that you need 

The life you live and the dreams that you dream 

Distort and blur all in slow motion 

They broke you down and now your broken 

(Spill the ink and spill your guts again)*16 times in the background* 

And it's sadder than the saddest movie 

I ever saw but without the beauty 

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring 

I've lost all interest and I stopped wearing 

These plastic smiles, I've washed my hands clean 

Forget that you forgot about me 

And I'm living life, the big city feeling 

It's better than suburban dreaming 

Living off the friends that hate you 

Talk shit on me like I don't know who 

My real friends are anymore, no, 

I dont know you anymore 

And it's sadder than the saddest movie 

I ever saw, but without the beauty 

So I stopped watching, I stopped caring 

Spill the ink and spill your guts again! 

I've fallen asleep with my eyes open 

(and you'll lie to all your friends) 

(about sights you never saw) 

Shutting down and off the lights 

(and you'll preach to all the press) 

(about what you don't know at all) 

Cause after all of this it's all or nothing 

Still I wouldn't try to fight