[Verse 1]

If I'm tired does that mean I can sleep?

Will I wake up from the same bad dream?

One that criticizes, makes me indecisive on everything

If I'm gone will they remember

How they watched me burn down to embers?

Or will they make up a lie and tell everyone I was a great guy?

Do I ever cross your mind?

'Cause you're sure as hell cross through mine

And if you care to know I've been sleepin' alone for a while

[Chorus]

But if the masses kept their voice down

Would there be flowers on a headstone?

Paved with misery and loving memory

Would it be possible to see

The signs nobody believed

Before it's too late and you're faced with

Constant sorrow you get lost in

How has everybody just forgotten?

I guess prayers only last a week

[Verse 2]

If I'm anxious does that pertain

To false realities set in my brain?

How hard is it to see a truth exists in what they say?

And if I let my vices win

Or walk a line so incredibly thin

Would you bat an eye from the outside and comprehend

That this ain't easy on your own

And nobody ever feels like home

Is it too much to not put me in the past all alone?

[Chorus]

But if the masses kept their voice down

Would there be flowers on a headstone?

Paved with misery and loving memory

Would it be possible to see

The signs nobody believed

Before it's too late and you're faced with

Constant sorrow you get lost in

How has everybody just forgotten?

I guess prayers only last a week

[Bridge]

When it's all said and done

I'll be forgotten, the masses won

They'll hold their heads up far too high

When it all comes crashing down

The fight is over, no one's around

I hope there's something down the line

[Chorus]

But if the masses kept their voice down

Would there be flowers on a headstone?

Paved with misery and loving memory

Would it be possible to see

The signs nobody believed

Before it's too late and you're faced with

Constant sorrow you get lost in

How has everybody just forgotten?

I guess prayers only last a week