Alright, take a step back
Now imagine that I got a can of gas and a lit match
Yeah like a bic, boy, I'm about to flick that
So call your demons to 8 track
Cause we're about to run laps with them
One hundred meter dash when the gun claps
Snap, BLAP, Get em
All of my life I've had a killer disposition
For optimism with a little cynicism
But in the mix the matrix of my mental chemicals
Is minimal at making sense. I mean serotonin hits
But here's the trick
There's more to the man than the chemicals he is
More to the woman than her eyes will give
Step one: I admit there are days when I want to quit
Pull the plug on my consciousness, tell my heart
Sayonara, no tomorrow, I'm not fond of being haunted
By the thought of no tomorrow
But there is. I'll end that sentence with a period. Period
We can live together
Or we can live apart
With you it's always better
No space inside my heart
I know you in the dark
We can be together
Or we can be apart
Won't gamble on the weather
I know your heads a storm
I know my heads a storm
Step two, learn to stomach this
We're like seven different people crammed into a single room
Clown car full of goons. Every one of us within us
Speaks a different language, sings a different tune
But not all of them are true. What? What I'm saying is, we're confused
Cause there's a version of me playing hard to stand tall
And there's a version of me praying for my downfall
Part of me is full of hope like roman candles
And part of me despairs like a cannibal
It's left, right, black, white, all about the hindsight
Heart and head, they might bite, cause here's where it gets tight
All the versions of me want what's best
But none of them agree on how to get at it
So they go to war, unaware it's peace that they're fighting for
Holy irony, Batman, where's the Joker when you need him
I just remembered chaos is a part of freedom
We can live together
Or we can live apart
With you it's always better
No space inside my heart
I know you in the dark
We can be together
Or we can be apart
Won't gamble on the weather
I know your heads a storm
I know my heads a storm
Now listen close
There are times when you will not have hope
Not know how to cope, and you won't want to bring yourself through
Death will literally sound better than getting out of bed
And nobody, including yourself, will understand why
So step three is to defy gravity and rise
Rise like flames! Rise like the sun through a night in the rain
Rise like your life's at the door and the bell just rang
Like death just came and you escaped unscathed
Take the pain and play it. I Can't be tamed, just say it
Bring your chains, your tasers, your bullets, you haters
Your opinions are basic. Your fixin' to taste them
Cause I'm quitting the matrix. Face it
I ain't taking this life; I'm making a living
I opened my eyes up to catch my vision
If you get it, you get it. So rise like you got it
Rise like a white flag on top of your object
Yeah, rise like you're God-sent
Like you're finally being honest with what you want
And nobody can stop it
Because nobody can stop ya
I said nobody can stop you
I said nobody can stop you
I said nobody can stop
We can live together
Or we can live apart
With you it's always better
No space inside my heart
I know you in the dark
We can be together
Or we can be apart
Won't gamble on the weather
I know your heads a storm
I know my heads a storm