Hung By A Thread lyrics

So here I stand : Face to face with the world
So curled up in reality : Suffocating in the womb of moral receipt

Often I feel the blood as it flows through my veins
Gushing life through my heart. Pumping thoughts to my brain

Hang myself out like a sheet soaking wet
For I long to feel winds that I haven`t felt yet

Sometimes I feel I`m hanging by a thread
Burning candles at both ends
Close to falling off the edge
Sometimes...
I don`t know if I can hold on anymore

Now, I stand accused of all the things that I`ve done
But my violence here is in protest : For I`m not a guilty one

I only believe what I see fit to believe
I pretend to be desperate to get what I need
And I`d raise my fist to the injustice I`m faced at
But, I`m unable to fight with my hands tied behind my back

So hang me up high, in a tree, facing north
I`ll be burning my bridges as you`re slapping the horse

It`s too late to run
And it`s much too late for running away

You see it in the eyes of caged animals
You see it in the faces of women scorned
It`s not anger that makes the cobra strike
It`s fear and only fear through which hatred is born

You see, it`s sitting here in silence where bitter thoughts are sewn
It`s one free life and sanity we want sacred as our own
But there are other planes I`m looking for in my search for peace & truth
It`s the shadow of fear and hatred that has put me in this noose