I'm caught up in the jaws of life   What can heal can also tear you up inside   Writing down your own anthem   You don't like the older one   I would stand at attention for less than minimum   Wage your own forgotten wars   Trade honor for canker sores   Ghostly pride with matching tours   You're childish without the joy   I know that I said I would change   I know that I haven't changed   A shoulder to lean on and then break/embrace   I'm barely breathing with my status day to day   Caught off guard by innocence   I cross my heart you influences pull you down   I swear it's not the fault of mine or of the fault of anyone   So tell me what the guilt feels like   Are you swallowed in the jaws of life   When you strip people down   you'll see how they don't need their cover   Is it clear and defined when fists from a simple conflict rise   And we turn into monsters we thought were once extinct.   (I could tell you things to shock you too)