and the birds eat your insides clutching the mountainside it's where the day takes you did you think you'd try to climb the face there's longing and it breaks you synthetic lungs filling up with concrete didn't miss a breath when you climbed so high could you see your wife and child and where you ready to die a million miles away would you throw it all away to climb back down simples dreams and the mainstream it's where the day takes you simple dreams and the mainstream but you chose to die a million miles from home