What do I do to ignore what's behind me?

Do I follow my fate and escape blindly?

Do I hide my pride away from these bad dreams

And give into sad thoughts that are maddening?

Do I let it go and try to stand it?

Or do I try to catch them redhanded?

Do I trust some and get fooled by phoniness?

Or do I trust none and live life in lonliness?



The sunlight burns the skin of sleeping men

I make the right turns but I'm lost within

I put on my daily faade but then

I just end up gettin' hurt again



[pre-chorus:]

By myself (Myself)

I ask why (but in my mind I find)

I can't rely on myself (Myself)

I ask why (but in my mind I find)

I can't rely on myself



[chorus]:

I can't hold on

To what I want when I'm stretched so thin

It's all too much to take in

I can't hold on

To anything watchin' everything spin

With thoughts of failure sinking in



If I turn my back I'm defenseless

And to give in to fate seems senseless

If I hide my pride and let it all go on

Then they'll take from me 'til everything is gone

If I let them go I'll be outdone

But if I try to catch them I'll be outrun

If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer

Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer...



[pre-chorus and chorus]



How do you think

That I've lost so much

I'm always afraid

That I'm out of touch

How do you expect

That I will know what to do

When all I know

Is what you tell me to



Don't you (know)

I can't tell you how to make it (go)

No matter what I do, how hard I (try)

I can't seem to convince myself (why)

I'm stuck on the out