At the first sign of daylight you came to the door   You'd fallen so fast you smashed on the floor   You said that you kissed everything good goodbye   And you laid down your head on the concrete and cried   You cried through the evening you cried through the night   You asked for forgiveness with all of your might   You kept wide awake heard the voices all say   You must be what they want or be who you say      In the mid-afternoon of the late summer sun   You were bending and breaking and coming undone   You went to the brink and you walked on the wire   And you slipped and you fell in a red lake of fire   Burning and bleeding you danced in the coals   Wasting your flesh to salvage your soul   Melting away in the choices you made   You can be what they want or be who you say      Now it is late in the night and your dreading the day   And your killing yourself in the usual ways   Thinking you found some new reason to try   As you choke on that reason you found and you die   You call for a doctor you call for a nurse   You ask for a cure but they give you a curse   Running away from the choice that they gave   You can be what they want or be who you say