Every day is a struggle Between what I want to say and what I want to keep to myself And the words that manage to leave my lips Don't hurt me, but they hurt everyone else So I find myself in need of a pause I'm not sure why, but I think that it's because Of this desire to be what others want me to be Which is nothing close to me But I'll see better when the smoke clears The smoke clears inside my head And I can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything I've said And all that remains me and who I am at the end of the day And this happens every day ... yeah... Every day is a battle Between what I want to know and what I don't want to figure out And everything in between in these thoughts of mine that you know I can't live with out So I find myself in need of a pause I'm not sure why, but I think that it's because Of this desire to be what others want me to be Which is nothing close to me But I'll see better when the smoke clears The smoke clears inside my head And I can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything I've said All that remains me and who I am at the end of the day And this happens every day ... yeah... oooh... But I'll see better when the smoke clears The smoke clears inside my head And I can listen when the screaming doesn't repeat everything I've said All that remains me and who I am at the end of the day And this happens every day ... this happens every day This happens every day... yeah...