While You Were Gone

Un American Tradition

While You Were Gone


So label me 
With the projection 
Of your own past life 
Hidden away 
In the darkest room 
At the end 
Of a forgotten hall 
Buried 
Under the rubble 
Of your own 
Lies, deciet 
And sexuality 
All to be covered 
With a mask 
A mask 
Of a rising church

That paints us 
With the colors 
Of your own 
Dark clouds 
Hanging over your head 
As you chastize 
With shaking fingers 
Dripping in the blood 
Of a hundred 
Different men 
You lead 
The other way 
And this lonely 
Child's heart 
That will never be 
The same

(4x):
I will never be 
The same 

All our lives 
We were told to be 
What's right 
For someone else 
Unable to live as 
And unable to be
The mystery known 
As ourselves
As children 
We stood there 
Straight in a line 
Waiting and watching 
And hoping to find 
A glimpse 
Of our future 
Without being 
Confined

Well 
Times are now changing 
And soon we'll undo 
The hand-cuffs 
And the mind-cuffs 
That held me and you 
We'll never look back 
Never stray 
Ffrom our mission 
Bringing an end 
To your 
Un american tradition