There's a boy I know, he has a heart of glass   It is gold inside but it has crystallized   It is beautiful but in its tragedy   It is hard to hold without shattering   He calls himself at night, in soft over-chords      Keeps coming back to it, his voice and echo coarse   Till the sound's so thick it turns the sky to smoke   And the greyest days the predictions told   But this boy I know, he is pure of soul   Just gets lost sometimes in his chemicals   Under a coat of night, it's oh-so-comforting   And that first breaking light becomes his enemy      He calls so late tonight, it is 4 a.m.   He is drunk, he can't find his apartment   I don't like how it feels when I think of him   All hooded in black, lost and stumbling   The days start to fade out of the frame   Like they're blurring into someone else's name   You try your hardest to rewind the tapes   But you're prepared every day   To make the same mistakes      Step out of that life   It's nowhere near your time   Just remember you called it all bullshit   Well, it is and if you stop giving into it   You can walk away the freest man      This boy I know lives in a bell jar   It is balancing upon his pedestal   He's trying not to upset his conscious   Afraid it's so fallen that no one will catch him   But I've been there too and I swear to god   If I can help you, please, you gotta tell me how   I know you've been away and it can break you down   And I don't want you gone      All the cracks you see can be repaired   And if you start to fall, we will be there   Don't drown yourself in all your old regrets   'Cause all the heaviness will steal away your breath      Step out of that life   It's nowhere near your time   And don't forget you called it all bullshit   It still is and if you stop giving into it   You will walk away the freest man      Shake your head   Loosen your grip   Raise up your fist   You are the freest man      Open your mouth   Scream it out loud   Forget all your doubt   You are the freest man