By the Throat

Feel, don't watch the mercury drop Things fell apart and then I turned and stopped and said I can't go on anymore like this Save me from the tired hums The crooked stares of the broken ones One by one, let's watch them all disappear I used to climb up to the attic at night I'd end up in the basement screaming I'm floating above all of you now It feels like now they've got me by the throat You make it sound so sincere I never believe what I always hear I never thought I'd see the day They've got me by the throat I'm force-fed all the answers My paranoia spreads like cancer I'm so far from all my problems now So I packed what's left of me and I'm leaving These city walls are closing in on me Take me back before it all began Before I'd run and before I cared Sometimes my best just isn't enough It feels like now they've got me by the throat You make it sound so sincere I never believe what I always hear I never thought I'd see the day They've got me by the throat I'm force-fed all the answers My paranoia just spreads like cancer I'm so far from all my problems now All of the things that I've left behind Have washed out to sea and soon comes The day that a hard rain falls on me --- By the Throat - Dead to Me