Trapped

It's a hard road to walk alone
When you can't find your home
And the clouds are gathering
Despite how far you've come
Each step sinks further in
Infliction to drag you down
Is there something beyond the dark?
Or is there nothing left to be found?

So many years of sweat and toil
Just to wither under the same grey sky
What is it all for?
Thinking the light has forsaken you
What other reason could there be?
To face this torment?
(Unacceptable, unacceptable)
This bitter punishment?
(Unacceptable)

Is this where you want to be?
Fighting demons in your mind
Running circles through your head
To get lost there yet again
You are never coming back
From the pathways you have cut
So where else is there to go
When the doubt is all you know?

There are brittle bones under your skin
Rattled by a slice of wind
The labor has taken its toll
And the drive is wearing thin
A prayer into the wind
A plea to make it in
Can this be the final time
You must do it all again?

Left in your wake is the evidence
That the corruption is bleeding out
(Spreading the misery)
All those who care are the innocent
Whose lives are marred by broken odds
For trying to break through your walls

Is this where you want to be?
Fighting demons in your mind
Running circles through your head
To get lost there yet again
You are never coming back
From the pathways you have cut
So where else is there to go
When the doubt is all you know?

All you'll ever know