School yards to smokey bars   All these shadows a long the wall   Wide eyed under endless skies   When ceilings seemed so tall   Erase and replace   I found a monster to call my own   Reflections trace a changing face   Regrets in flesh and bone   I've built this castle in sand   It becomes smaller with every grain   I've built this future with my hands   The silouhettes mark my gain   Suffocate this child and choke on the result   These seeds with no light   A blind will to grow   Blueprints of descent   It's etched in the past that we all know   Scarred chins and splitting shins   Caloused with fears that show   Erase and replace   I found a monster to call my own   Red crayons and open hands   I was taught by sticks and stones   Seperated but the kids still breathing   Somewhere in between   It's when our limbs they weigh us down   We retrace the seams   But under cold rain and hot air I once watched time stand still   I stepped back and smiled at the small shoes that I've filled