A Midwestern State Of Emergency

A Midwestern State Of Emergency - Silverstein

I am a dead man

I'm crawling into a trap

A horizontal response

I'm laying down for you once again

You've taken what's granted

I've said goodbye to my friends

I throw myself headfirst into this

Close the curtain and strand me

Found myself lost again

With even more excuses

And even less concern

Bound and gagged but I enjoy it

You seduce your prisoner

Before you take your turn

So lay me down in the field

And put me under the trees

In the tall grass

Where they won't find me

Enjoying silence and peace

Until the sirens

They come back screaming

Taking me away

I've given all I can give

So don't let me go back between woodward and cass

Cracked concrete and broken glass

This run down block with my name in lights

Your saving grace my final rites

Eleven miles from where I was

When I conceded my head

Embraced my lost control

Innocence in a state so pure

You hear the demons calling

To take back what you stole

So lay me down in the field

And put me under the trees

And the tall grass

Where they won't find me

Enjoying silence and peace

Until the sirens

They come back screaming

Taking me away

I lost a piece of myself

And I forget to slow down

And just breathe and it's scaring me

I've given all I can give

So don't let me go

I am a dead man I am a dead man

And it's the only way it can end

Light

Don't know who's side I'm on

Anymore

And there's

No starting

Over

So lay me down in the field

And put me under the trees and the tall grass

Where they will find me

Enjoying silence and peace until the sirens

They come back screaming taking me away

I lost a piece of myself and I forget to slow down

And just breathe and it's scaring me

I've given all I can give so let me go