Stoneheart

Paper Thin Town

I burnt you to the ground
I burnt you to the ground
Ashes in a mound
Washing away your fakery
Not another sound.

I am over living in
a paper thin town
Paper people, paper cars,
Paper homes and paper hounds,
Paper mortgages, money spent
On all the wrong things
Give me some scissors
And I'll make paper wings
Then I can fly away from here,
where people's hearts are empty
Where I do not feel quite at home,
To where I'll no longer see
Paper people opening doors
In houses for their friends
And holding hands, and holding heads
Up high and in pretense

Paper people full of pride,
and sick with every envy
Paper people taking sides,
maybe I'm over analysing
Maybe I need to take a pill
Pretend that nothing is for real
My feelings are perceived
And nothing could be better
It's me, it's only me

But I do not feel welcome
In this hollow paper town
Where we live each day below
And not above the ground
And I do not feel loved
Or appreciated now
Cause paper people take their toll
I'm burning this place down

Paper people make the rules
But do they live by them themselves?
Paper people rule the roost
And claim to understand the realms
Of compassion and common sense
Of emotional intelligence
But can they prove how much they care
Deep down into the deepest where
They think we lack the aptitude
To make our choices, we're not fooled
By smiles grimacing into
The slightest of revulsion
They suffer us at best
At most under compulsion

Paper people do their worst
By never living by their words
And taking more than what they need
And living borderline on greed
They look at us, judgemental eyes
Thinking how could we surmise
To live in boxes small, surprised
Away from everything they like

We hide away from open shows
Of just how great we are
We live inside our little homes
Seem distant and afar
But we are more with 'it' than them
Those paper people in their den
Of pretention and ignorance
Blissfully lacking common sense
In how to consider one another
How to consider every brother
Equally, not partially
Don't look at me like I'm a freak
Cause I'm just trying to stay above
The tides of life, the lack of love
In paper people, paper homes
Paper towns make paper foes

Stop being a fake, yeah I see through
That smile of yours, never the truth
Paper people stab themselves
With papercuts and wasted youth
And have the gall to preach to me
About life and love, how I should live
When they went out and always did
The dumbest of the dumbest things
Don't preach to me, I'm not a kid
And I see through that smile of yours
I don't agree, I never did
But paper people always win
And paper people cannot sin
So I must go away from here
Where paper people sing a hymn
Of dominance, and martyrdom.

Because I died
From all their partiality
Part of me died
They killed me with
Their words of insincerity
And now they carry me away
Into the darkest cemetery

Paper people are the ones
Who think you needed saving
From yourself, they hope to help
Sinners from ever caving
Into living by their conscience
I'm still over here waiting
For somebody who believes
In zones of moral shading
Grey is my prerogative
Black and white is fading
Let me make my choices
Judgement is awaiting
But I cannot allow myself
To be consecrated
For choosing the right thing
My life is all related
To the basic principle
Discretions underrated
But it works and its preferred
To the miserable and degrading
Way we make base judgements
Without knowing and just hating
Everything on surface value
Moral high ground stop parading

Why can't they just let go
Paper people will never know
The joy, the life that comes
From living in the moment
Paper people are the ones
Who denied then stole it

I'm burning this wretched town
Into the earth and to the ground
Until nothing remains
But dust and ashes found
From the paper people
Paper homes and paper pounds
Theres no more reason to be proud
I burnt you to the ground
I burnt you to the ground
Ashes in a mound
Washing away your fakery
Not another sound