Crossroads

Beneath a lamplight shattered, just another hazard All Fractured and tattered, mad as a hatter does she even matter Should we even care? no one stops to  stare  Everyone's scared of the silhouette with silver hair, in a rusty  chair  At the crossroads God knows there's a lost  ghost  Crawling off this old bowl, this old soul has lost  control  And she's chosen her moment to go But we set the locomotive in motion and roll Right on by, windows up high, nose up to the  sky  Never look her in the eye, tell me why She's been left for dead in this 2D set There's a rupture in our culture and we show no regret She has made her bed and she has paid her debts So place your bets is this her final step? Ethics are paper thin, nobody's listening  A life is flickering but still nobody's wrestling  With right and wrong, wrong and right, What happened to the price of life? We strive for heights but falling short  We roll right past, she's made of glass, My mirror image stares right back what of her past? It fades to black The irony and the hypocrisy  Is that the meaning of this song is fucking lost on me So stop accosting me, it's not costing me I am happy and free I don't need to feel guilty A million ways to live or die and this is how A single chance to save a life but never now I write these rhymes to shun the shame So I can point the blame somebody else's way And all the poems and all the songs they hide her face away Lost in words of meaning that are meaningless today Slipped through the cracks, we all turn our backs My disposable conscience isn't made to last Put out to pasture left hanging in the rafters  There's no next chapter no happily ever after Just disaster on the hifi, attired in her tie-dye Resigned to her time to die, society turns a blind eye Recognise the crime it's high time Between apathy and evil is a fine line Retired and expired no desire for an encore The curtain is drawn she won't go on no more In a shroud disempowered and devoured she has tapped out Screwed up and scratched out Chewed up and spat out Dissected ingested digested neglected Rejected detested ejected dejected  Now check this we wrecked this, gone and made a mess of this She's helpless so restless, so sorry I'm a pessimist  But face the disgrace this place is a facade Everyday just the same a race into the grave She's chased into a cold embrace this ain't no safe space Just a charade all smoke and mirrors and haze ablaze A forgotten cog within the machine She's invisible cos she's never seen like a bad dream Might as well be up in space it's fucking obscene  Cos down here on earth no one can hear her scream