To Live How We Believe - The Riot Before

Fast lane with the stereo loud

Crashes hard in the back of your throat

Monotone at the bus stop

A single line feeling so lost

In all the rooms that repeat a familiar routine

A sigh and a stare start the day

Pick up a keychain with two keys

But only one that you still need

It’s so hard to leave pessimism

When all the facts seem to support the case

But you try anyway

To live how we believe in god

Always searching for a sign of proof

There exists a transferable thought

A lens we both see through

Cause I’ve been feeling alone a lot

And I was hoping that maybe there could be some way to…

Say a sentence or two that could get through to you

How memory adulterates

They dress in our own clothes

Another’s words we’ll never know

On the side of the road I am watching unfold

Another embarrassed defeat

If this is always a lost cause

Than what am I here for

Cause all I want is to leave cynicism

But I don’t think I have that kind of faith

To just throw it away

And then live how we believe in love

Holding tight to every sign of proof

It exits, that there’s something above

Our weak and fragile truths

Cause I’ve been feeling hopeless a lot

And I’ve been thinking that maybe

If I stood in the same spot

For a couple weeks unmoving

If I slowed down my talk

Stretched the syllables out lengthy

Could you see where I’m standing

Finally hear what I’m trying for

I’ve been wraithlike lately

I don’t want to feel like that anymore