It's not the pain, that I'm used to it

It's feeling like I'm already dead

I see from a ceiling of misty spirit

Rising from a place in my head

And I never even get to go down

Down in flames

I said, friend you have a life to see

Why do you want to scare me so?

All the suffering and mystery me

I can't even pretend to know

So you never even get to go down

Down in flames

You never even get to go down

Down in flames

We had plans to explore the stars

Be rejected by stage door guards

Mining for gold, the time unreels

Not stifling behind Suburban wheels

Not stifling behind Suburban wheels, yeah

The plan was to burn up when the air was clear

We'd all wear our visors down

An arc welder's spark in the atmosphere

Not this man-sized hole in the ground

Now your father's face is frozen between anger and tears

You're mother's hair's amazingly grey

And I'm seeing these friends for the first time in years

It's icicle reunion day

And you never even got to go down

Down in flames

You never even got to go down

Down in flames

You never even got to go down

Down in flames

You never, ever, ever even got to go down

Down in flames