forward progress - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

Forward progress, can't go back now

Can't regress, can't let them down

Any more than I already have

Any more than I already will

This time, I'll change

To try to focus is to drain blood from a stone

And don't I know it

This isn't how it was meant to go

Tie a knot around my neck

Dress for the role you want to have

And this time, I'll change

But I said that last time too

I said that last time too

And I'm tired of lying to you

From in this cage I built

That I went and lost the key for

This world's in such a hurry

Tripped on the laces I didn't have time to tie

I missed the last train home again

I'm trapped in purgatory

No life to live, but I'm still afraid to die

"Well, hey, that's something," says my only friend

Is this all that there is, I'm worried

Cause sometimes it feels like I fell out of the sky

This doesn't feel like where I'm meant to be

But I can't leave, I can't leave, I can't leave

Strange how things keep changing day by day

All I want is for something to stay the same

Or at least for me to catch up and find a way

To join the rest of you in the human race

Please don't try and tell me it's okay

I hide my head in your shoulder so you won't see my face

I can't remember how I got this way

Or why you stick around when I tell you to stay away