How Can I Be Free

[Verse 1]
The dangling curtains at my door
Cast a shadow on the floor
Dancing visions pass my eye
Telling neither truth nor lie
Touching like a hypnotizing rhyme

[Verse 2]
Everything that I once knew
Is flitting close and passing through
Faces from behind I see
They're passing close and touching me
Casting dark reflections on my mind

[Chorus]
Oh, how can I be free?
Oh, how can I be free
When the walls are closing in on me?Oh, how can I be free?

[Verse 3]
I'll raise my glass up to my face
And see if I can drown a taste
That swims inside this head of mine
Never travelling in a line
And never really close enough to see

[Verse 4]
A dream world passing through my brain
Never to return again
Shadows I can't seem to place
And every image I can't trace
Reflecting from the walls and touching me

[Chorus]
Oh, how can I be free?
Oh, how can I be free
When the walls are closing in on me?
Oh, how can I be free?

[Verse 5]
I'll bow my head and dry my eyes
Watch the seabird as she flies
Across the clouds encircling line
To leave the touch of time behind
Caring not for reason or for style

[Verse 6]
A dream explodes inside my head
Still I'm tied here to this bed
Of neon light and stopwatch boom
Where dreamers cannot find the room
Close their eyes and drift awhile

[Chorus]
Oh, how can I be free?
Oh, how can I be free
When the walls are closing in on me?
Oh, how can I be free?