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When did we become these sinking stones?
When did we build this broken home?
Holding each other like ransom notes
Dropping our hearts to grip our brother's throat

You can't see because you don't know
You're caught below, beneath your own shadow
Stuck inside, half alive
Do you ever stop to ask yourself why?
Close your mind, identify
Do you feel, do you feel?
Do you call this a life?
All you waited for
Drowning just to keep score

We always start with good intentions
But lose ourselves along the way

This is the time that we let it go
These are the words that will take us home
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we don't open our eyes we're walking blind

Anchored in anger, we exile ourselves
Bitter blood builds our prison cell
Darker water now fills our lungs
The depths of our heart have blacked the sun

Naked we come, naked we leave
Fools we are, to hold tightly
We are the jail, we are the key
We are free, we are free
This is the time that we let it go
This is the pain we are forced to know
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we just open our eyes​
When did we build this broken home?
Holding each other like ransom notes
Dropping our hearts to grip our brother's throat

You can't see because you don't know
You're caught below, beneath your own shadow
Stuck inside, half alive
Do you ever stop to ask yourself why?
Close your mind, identify
Do you feel, do you feel?
Do you call this a life?
All you waited for
Drowning just to keep score

We always start with good intentions
But lose ourselves along the way

This is the time that we let it go
These are the words that will take us home
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we don't open our eyes we're walking blind

Anchored in anger, we exile ourselves
Bitter blood builds our prison cell
Darker water now fills our lungs
The depths of our heart have blacked the sun

Naked we come, naked we leave
Fools we are, to hold tightly
We are the jail, we are the key
We are free, we are free
This is the time that we let it go
This is the pain we are forced to know
Singing the song that's inside us all
If we just open our eyes​
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Seems pretty straight forward about how the bitterness and grudges we hold on to bring us down instead of lifting us up. I guess this is the hard rock version of Let It Go. I really like the line, "Drowning just to keep score."
at first he wonders why his wishes are sinking stones.. then he wants to seperate from. them.
How far can you get until you drown? 1 2 3....50...60... Happy Birthday. You seem to be stuck beneath your own shadow. Didn't you notice? "Live true to yourself" they say but make sure you don't swim to the surface.
I hear this as a view on how our societal programming functions. it must be black or white, either good or evil, for or against. this does not allow for compassion, forgiveness, healing, love...so we harbor our programmed hates until the weight is so much we lash out at anything or anyone we are "directed" to...even our brother. there a message of lost freewill, which is the 2nd most well sold lie we have collectively accepted. you always have a choice to drop the weights of hate sorrow negative emotions and thoughts. the 1st i would say is separation. the belief that there is a profound evil found in the differences among us. Absolutely ridiculous yet so many swallow that pill.