People are puppets held together with string   There's a beautiful sadness that runs through him   As he asked me to pray to the God he doesn't believe in      Time and again boys are raised to be men   Impatient they start, fearful at the end   But here was a man mourning tomorrow   He drank, but finally drowned in his sorrow      He could not break surface tension   He looked in the wrong place for redemption   Don't look at me with those eyes   I tried to unheave the ties   Turn back the time that drew him   But he couldn't be saved   A sadness runs through him   Through him      Time and again boys are raised to be men   Impatient they start, fearful at the end   But here was a man mourning tomorrow   Who drank, but finally drowned in his sorrow      He could not break surface tension   He looked in the wrong place for redemption   Don't look at me with those eyes   I tried to unheave the ties   Turn back the time that drew him   But he couldn't be saved   A sadness runs through him   Through him      Don't look   Don't look   Don't don't      Don't look at me with those eyes   I tried to unheave the ties   Turn back the time that drew him   But he couldn't be saved   No he couldn't be saved   A sadness runs through him   A sadness runs through him   A sadness runs through him   A sadness runs through him   A sadness runs through him