This is Not an Exit - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Time]

This is not an exit popping pills in Texas

Smelling like black label seeing coke on the table

Standing on a building or on top of a cliff

This is not an exit rolling a hemlock spliff

Art and creation is not an escape

It’s temporary therapy to numb the hate

This is not an exit, cancelled eyes and addiction

There’s no magic, just trap doors for magicians

Delusional illusions, cocooned in denial

This is not an exit, getting married and a child

This is not an exit, affair and divorce

Leaving town won’t solve your problems, your head is the source

Sold out show, I’m waiting for the curtains to open

Visions from my past life, dying from choking

On my knees praying to the sky like I’m desperate

Money and fame, will this be my exit?

[Hook: Jason Horodyski]

And I can’t wait no more

So familiar this place

Where I can’t change or grow

From this head space

And these spider webs

And synapses

Chained entrance says

No exit here

[Verse 2: Time]

And I don’t even know where I’m gonna go

That curtain fell like autumn snow

Not really sure what tomorrow will bring

I’m running from that Apollo cane

Looking in the mirror, my hairs on fire

I’m running down the fire escape

It’s clear my friends are liars, guess I’ll retire this cape

No seatbelts not an exit, out the windshield I’m ejected

I wake up from a night terror, sleep is not an exit

Cause when you wake up, everything’s exactly how you left it

Sex is not an exit, it’s just lust being reckless

You can’t run away and blow them brains

You’ll be right back with the same old things

Lies don’t work when the truth’s the same

Excuses don’t work when nothing has changed

Silence is not an exit cause with it there’s no progression

Words can be medicines or weapons

But they’re worthless without questions

The films all over, the credits are rolling

Cigarette in my hand regret I’m holding

You gotta forgive and let it all go

If I don’t do that the guilt will grow

You can’t escape death is my only learned lesson

And I don’t regret a second as I’m walking towards my exit