Pins and Patches

I'm gonna drown myself in All these fading sites of youth In murals whited out to match the present Tense with cures For the character that made us who we were Clueless kids with cynic faces Aimed at all we would become And it isn't what you want, I know I've seen the drafts Of better lives you wrote, redacted, tore, and torched Afraid you might compare yourself the way your parents used to The way you still do all the same Afraid you might have missed your mark I know I feel it, too It leaves you wanting something You always said you wanted more More Than I could ever give you In this town you just can't leave, and You always said you wanted more Another decade wasted on sterility A thousand drafts of filtered faces Void of blemishes or scars Selling all the same old lies our parents used to tell us Mechanical, manipulating If we're gonna make believe, why can't it be Any damn fun Any damn fun Does this need saying Does this need saying It leaves you wanting something You always said you wanted more More Than I could ever give you In this town you just can't leave, and You always said you wanted This time I don't believe you There's nothing left to leave behind You locked the picket fence behind you Ran and hid yourself inside With wedding ring contingencies designed to hold you over Now just holding you in line That leave you wanting something You always said you wanted more More