Angst

On greasy streets, under parking lot lights We're lost in a maze of blurred nights Searching for our truth in a world of lies Where every smile hides a thousand cries We're youth who vainly clipped our wings Trying to fly through a sky that stings The harder we endeavor to break free The tighter the chains of bitter reality Insecurity, like a fire in our veins Burning bright with passion, but fading with the rains We scream into the void, but no one hears our cries Caught in the crossfire of truth and lies We're rebels with a cause, or so we claim Like the ones we rage against, we're just the same Lost in a chaos of our own design Thinking we can outrun the hands of time We're chasing ghosts in the graveyard hour Searching for meaning in the darkest power But the more we seek, the less we find To truth and reality we're naively blind Insecurity, like a fire in our veins Burning bright with passion, but fading with the rains We scream into the void, but no one hears our cries Caught in the crossfire of truth and lies We're chasing the hollow virtues of other's Convinced to turn against our own Mothers Caught in a cycle of propaganda and pain We're used up for someone else's gain We're chasing ghosts in the graveyard hour Searching for meaning in the darkest power But the more we seek, the less we find To truth and reality we're naively blind Apprehension, like a storm in our souls We're drowning in waves of someone else's goals A cycle of pleasing others with this or that Forgetting ourselves and where we're at