[Verse 1]

I pledge allegiance to the past

The first shall work to make it last

The wolves have learned to leave their caves

They’re showing teeth and getting braver

[Pre-Chorus 1]

It’s time we put them in their place

We’ll round them up and make them pay

Leave them howling at the gates

Of our superior placement

[Verse 2]

A light emerges from the cracks

The tide reverses from its path (The city's marching in the streets for an awakening)

You better run if you can’t hide

The hounds are loose and won’t subside (I hear her calling from the catwalk as I make believe)

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Now that the other's been expelled

Why do I feel it hasn’t helped?

Perhaps the problem is myself

And my superior placement

[Interlude]

They’ll never understand

[Bridge]

They’ll never understand

That I don’t need my eyes to see

The truth will never set me free

And I don’t ever want to be

Anything but everything

[Pre-Chorus 3]

My teeth are pressed against the pavement (They’ll never understand)

Every achievement to be wasted (They’ll never understand)

And we could have everything

You’d rather hand them the keys to our superior placement

[Chorus]

And I will never understand

How could I ever understand?

No, I don't have to understand

No, I don't want to understand (I don't want to understand)

[Chorus]

So I will never understand (I will never understand)

I will never understand (I will never understand)

No, I will never understand (I won’t ever understand)

No!

[Outro]

(And we could have everything)