Just before you go, tell us how the heavens flow Weightless evermore, as you walk beyond that door Shine forever true As the embers rose through the Roman sky Tell me were you calm when they took your life? Shared with us the world well before your time

I often dream of huge numb buildings Jet-black sinister architecture Being installed when nobody sees Their appearance so sudden That few would take notice And when I wake up I imagine being crushed by one Imagining its weight its silence

(It's time to take the time) You're fighting the weight of the world Close your eyes You can find all you need in your mind You can feel the waves coming on Let them destroy you or carry you on But no one can save you this time Find all you need in your

Yeah, today the big day Been here four years, eleven months and twenty-nine hot ones One more day and I'm a free man walkin Leavin from behind these gates, I paid my debt to the state And ever since they took the weights Wasn't much for a nigga to do but

When your long day is over And you can barely drag your feet The weight of the world Is on your shoulders I know what you need Bring it on home to me You've got someone here Wants to make it all right

Do I have to change my name This type of modern life Am I gonna be a star Will it get me far Should I lose some weight And you know I'm satisfied I tried to be a boy Is it for me Is it for free

This means war Hide my face again, harbor in the shadows Feel this weight of sin hammering away Die, with the guilt of a thousand AWOL soldiers Die, watch the scythe usher me astray I can't go on this way Not as I am today The ugly side of me is strong

We should be friends I don't know you well but I know that look On losing sleep and gaining weight On pain and shame and crazy trains Oh, we should be friends If your mind's as cluttered as your kitchen sink If your heart's as empty as your diesel tank

My feet plow on From light to dawn My empty belly and my body aches Ain’t hard to take Next to the weight I carry in my chest A pound of flesh Could never tip the scale that I’ve made I should have stayed

When the weight comes down And the weight comes down Afternoon, see a guy with rubies on his head And he's shifting like shifting like he was dead And he's hearing something, she never said On his way back home, under his bed In the night there's a girl