Meridene: Stayin Alive

I had the words to repeat
hanging from the tips of bitter tongues
as time keeps climbing up the rusty rungs
as the ladder she hung

Herself down on the street
Thinking slow as she begins to sway
no one will ever get to climb
another goddamn day

No! No! No! No! Please stay, stay alive
we've got a lot for which we strive
we need your handle on those heights to achieve them

No! No! No! No! Our dreams, slowly die
as you fell from the sky
now we'll never be those doctors or that lawyer...we couldn't reach the BARR

They call a silent retreat
the world had scorched a bitter black
they started up a plot to get it back
except for something they lacked

They couldn't reach new heights
planes they built they couldn't reach the door
so they grabbed some rope and held on tight
like the ladder before...they sing

(Repeat Chorus)

But that ladder came back to its senses, and came on back to mend some fences
it wouldn't let us dangle on the line it designed
running dry on bad excuses, trying hard to face the truth
that we're the reason why, there's a limit to the sky

And just why, can't we love
why must we always push and shove
and reach our goals by piling up the bodies

Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Our blood, is the same
no matter which way we came
be from the bottoms up or on our father's shoulders

No! No! No! No! I'll stay, stay alive
and raise our hopes up to the sky
with lights of caution now cast down from empty rooms

And yeah, yeah, yeah, our bones, they may break
but my soul you cannot take
it's a firefly that I keep in my room
till our hearts are in bloom