Close to Home

Lay your head where they hold Hide the demarcations of your soul And play your silent scream role Harmonize your own worth to what you’re shown Normalized and nowhere close to home Claim the truth that gets lost In the miles of memory and open folds So change these rules and let’s cross All the sacred boundaries we’ve overgrown Build a brave new foundry close to home Here’s unbroken bone It’s a psalm from the book of lies Language you don’t recognize as part of your own Leave that alone Leave that alone This is the taste you were forever chasing There is no way to contain it when it comes to set you off Accept the shame on some shaky basis Admit that you were mistaken about it after all But oh the ache, the fantasy forsaken The alien and adjacent you would give anything to take off This is the claim that you’ll keep on making This is the point of the breaking Here it comes to set you off We won’t be sold Any song from your book of lies Language we don’t recognize as part of our own Leave us alone Leave us alone Pay them all to sign on Diagnose some fault line most will know And raise your life a new dawn Tyrant of your cells now overthrown Never have you felt so close to home