[Chorus]

I can't tell you

I can't tell you how many times that I've wanted, I've wanted to quit

I can't tell you

I can't tell you how many times that I've wanted, I've wanted to run

[Post-Chorus]

Gotta stay strong

Gotta stay strong, my friend

Gotta stay strong

There's no one in the end to watch you run

[Verse]

Keep step with me

If you forget take a breath

Keep me in your mind

There's no one left here

I feel my spine move every step

Bring me one step closer to escape

Realizing all is fake

The illusion of being awake

I hope my son know that he's made to walk the sun

You can run, decide to fight or fly, I may

Choose to ride the lightning miles away

I hope my son know that he's made to walk the sun

I hope my son know daddy's proud of what he's done

I hope you live to shoot another day

You'd better brought some bullets in your gun

The night, the day, the time decay

Our bodies escape from us

Why do we have to prey on each other quite so much?

There is no answer to these questions, learn your lesson

Walk away from awesome power

Blessings come with practice

On our backs is all this weight

Some can't handle knowing it's their fate

[Bridge]

And they wanna go back, oh yeah

And they tryna go back, oh yeah

But there ain't no goin' back, oh no

Yeah, there's only one path, oh yeah

And they wanna go back, oh yeah

Yeah, they tryna go back, oh yeah

But there ain't no goin' back, oh no

Yeah, there's only one path, oh yeah

[Chorus]

I can't tell you

I can't tell you how many times that I've wanted, I've wanted to quit

I can't tell you

I can't tell you how many times that I've wanted, I've wanted to run

[Post-Chorus]

But I gotta stay strong (Gotta stay strong), my friend

But I gotta stay strong (But I gotta stay strong), in the end

To watch you run