Student Driver

Rise
I’m everything I am and everything
I have been brings me here to stand against you
I bled my heart, these sleeves stained red

I don’t think it matters anymore
I have made my own decision
You should leave this alone
You say you want the best, but in whose best interest?

I don’t want conflict. I made my choice
I walked away from who I was, and it brought me further from you
I have made my own decision
You should leave this alone

Leave it alone
As you admire what you’re trying to do
Hanging ‘said’ beautiful pictures in sullen rooms
As if your hand can shelter me from the night

A shadow’s a shadow, but in yours resent hides
And she blooms, shifting foundation core, shifting the poles, bringing life
The newest we’ve ever known
Blow out the candle, the vigil ends, the splinters mend

Look in the face of a dear dead friend
I will be raised up and I’m not looking to oppression for a cause
I read the braille of your unwritten laws
Breathe in the exhale of all things lost

So I can see myself without the tint of your vision
Bad architects’ fetish throbs for collision
And in the wake of disasters
So small you could walk by them and not notice at all

The ripples will inherit the earth
Rise
I have made my own decision
You should leave this alone
Leave it alone