The Ballad - Intellectual

[Instrumental Intro]

I'm not one to say

Where my feelings are going

When they wither away

I pray to see another day

My heart's feeling like a needle lost in the hay

Restrained to meet again

My friend do you think that we ever will?

I know we are free

The games are played with your life on the line

Some lose, you win if you keep on trying

I don't mind doing the time

I'm happier being alive

Now I know the means to my oppression

Were all lies

The only truth is your own most sacred lesson I've ever learned

I know we are free

Yeah, yeah

Don't go, no, don't look back, just realize

I've been robbed, I've been fooled

I intend now to make my own rules

Dagger's edge cut the line, I've been down that road

Too many times

What's to fear, fear no more

Show my conscience what fears's for

Now I know this is so real

What's done is done so do as you will

I'm keeping alive

Go on, no, don't look back

Just realize where you've gone

Where are you going to, no life's not done with you

You've only just begun, to live your life

For you...