Badly Drawn Hero

I will never say goodbye
Surrendering to faceless dance music or advance through it
Debased, as a faded page of cult fiction
Most of my heroes barely recognize themselves in what they sold me
Boldly denying that selling was part of the premise
I was taught where a rising tide and the sinking ship live
Framed in a burner house we've been renting
You can abandon what you adopted when it refusеs to accept your image
In a way that I can't
Becusе I always see myself in the face of the children
Let that soak in for a second

The mask pulls down right now
The mask pulls down right now
The mask pulls down right now
The mask pulls down right now

Ad absurdum, ad infinitum, ad naseum
Been eating grits for dinner lately
So excuse me as i pause to wipe these tears off this sandwich
A real winner
Support your local agitprop
Currently throwing rocks at the throne the size of the throne
Skimming through today's episode of American half alive at home
Now behind this door we have
Now behind this door we have
Now behind this door we have
My radiators breathing meaning
Thoughts are leaving this salted earth to merge with chemtrails
Reading the madness as braille I yell
"we don't share the same goals, nor are haunted by the same ghost!"
Kicking wasps nest to form a union
Muting the sound of pistons moving
So it's probably prudent to view this as a badly drawn hero
Death mask for the veterans filled with flowers of the buried
Whistling wind soundtrack for a ghost town where I'm now sheriff
Smart went crazy
Truth got trendy
The elephant started knocking hats off heads because they room felt he got too friendly
Now on one side is an Atlas complex
Making standing still the only option
The others a drunkard of a bygone era
Swinging at phantoms long forgotten
My peers train possums to play possum
And stay awesome, awkwardly photo blogged
Or take office or stay awkward well into their thirties
Welcome to the local Jesus late show
I pull a rickshaw of fire
Full babbling youth mistaken it as a stagecoach
Off brand? Off-set details printed for off white con-men
For an audience that kills gods for daily content

Now I can see for miles and miles and miles and
What can you see?
I can see for miles and miles and miles and
What can you see? What can you see?
I can see for miles and miles and miles and
The- the blast radius. The- the blast radius. The- the blast radius

There's a gun in my hand (No!)
It's an anti-hero's flag (No!)
It's a list of demands (No!)
It's a grenade and a mask (No!)
It's a bottle and a flask (No!)
It's a bottle and some rags (No!)
It's a promise and a plan (No!)
It's a promise and...

I can see for miles and miles and miles and
I can see for miles and miles and miles and
I can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and

That's my wife over there (No!)
It's a fucking bottle of poison (No!)
It's a leg hobbled by choices (No!)
It's a collapse guided by voices (No!)
A dream with a truth that destroys it (No!)
A scene used to avoid it
A collective scheme we rejoice in
A defective machine we're employing
Black blocks
On old Nazi tattoos on the arms of baristas on black blocks
Add hoc crown for an army
Trained to fight bullets with tears
Praying for first world problems
It looks like a cashier is our mascot
Drowning in information, inflammation
Ancient kingdoms and cash crops
Flat circles and chaos ladders
Baldwin quotes and seance chanting
The revolution will have a laugh track
And a guest verse for Black Thought
I've destoryed as much as I saved
You can see the scars when my hat's off
And there are some branding opportunities in being brave
So I'm staying until I cash in

You can take a stand, raise a flag
But what are you willing to lose?
You can shake a hand, make a plan
But how are you willing to move?
You can take a stand, raise a flag
But what are you willing to lose?
You can shake a hand, make a plan
But how are you willing to move?
You can take a stand, raise a flag
But what are you willing to lose?
You can shake a hand, make a plan
But how are you willing to move?
You can take a stand, raise a flag
But what are you willing to lose?
You can shake a hand, make a plan
But how are you willing to move?