Something precious and sacred you hold
The key to what’s inside you
And while it’s meant to be shared
We’ve built these walls to the heavens
And covered them in shards
Of broken dreams and sharpened tongues
And hands meant only to take
It’s become so hard to be
What we know we’re born for
These wings were made to spread
These souls supposed to shine
And we soil them, dragged screaming to the ground
We silence them in suffering
Until we lock the doors
And forget we have those keys
But that’s not how we’re meant to live
And meaning is something we always search for
Even when we know the answer
Because facing that we’ve failed ourselves
Is just too much sometimes
But we’ve failed this world
We’ve failed and now we’re stuck
Trying to find ways around
These walls we wield as weapons
Hiding in shadows and secrets
What we should be proudly shining
A war we cannot win when none stand with us
Against a system built before
That looks to tear us down
And all the generations past
That found their own sick ways to cope
What hope have we to change it?
I don’t know, but surely we must try
As others had to have before
And hold on to the glimmer
That we might break the cycle
Use these keys we hold so tight
And open wide again