Do not obey Never one to be held back or held down I'd write my name so the king could see I will follow the true declaration And find some hope in what mankind could be I've worked so hard Let my deeds be my witness And let my words flow through

There, along the road, was a tiny home The yard held dead machines behind its fences Like they were it's kids Broken down, but still worth a lot to someone It made me stop and grin Light from a dying moon It blurs our eyes And we wear a cape of fireflies

Will you show me the piece of my heart I’ve been missing? So I’ll light up a cigarette I’ll drink it down ‘til there’s nothing left ‘Cause I sure can’t get no sleep And Lord knows there’s no relief You held my heart in your fingertips So now I drown in

All this life shrouded in a veil Of deception in association But now I will witness thee With unblinding open eyes Judas I bury you in your own blood You only held me down from what I was suppose to be Ascend above the ashes of the world I once knew

Forged in the Black Country Under blood red skies We all had our dream to realize Driving in that transit Down to Holy Joe's Used to lose our head while metal flowed Nothing held us back or dared to try Something in our blood won't let us die We built

Now you run around with him, and him, and him How you do that? I shut down my life for you (I shut down my life) How you act like I never held you every night And now you never call back, please (please) If you saw me, would you understand? That I can't

Tryin' to untangle my mind So far down, the devil loved me high I'm just trying to untangle my mind Well I drank a lot of whiskey in my time And I've held a lot of women that were fine And I made a little money, I blew every dime Well I've made a lot of

Doing lines in the restroom Tell me why my exes besties now I was down for you At one point in my life Down for you Once upon a time You held me down Now you just holding me back Thinking pics gon' stress me out

Like a little black dress Stuck on a little hot mess (little hot mess) Dear gravity, you held me down in this starless city Oh, three, two, one Oh, baby you're a classic You're a faded moon And oh, baby you're a classic

Hands held higher We'll be on fire Does it bother anyone else Down in the forest We'll sing a chorus Singing songs that nobody wrote That someone else has your name? One that everybody knows I scream, you scream, we all scream