Alkaline Trio - 5

Schoolyard freaks are freezingdown getting teased again


I’m looking back and down and watching it go by


Down at the stockyards cattle screamingthe trains squeak by again


I can feel my breath and I’m so thankful I’m not one of them





The sound of the ground freezing is pounding once again


It comes with the wind that once wiped off our smiles


Alarm clock bells are screaming out the same routine again


Scrape open your eyesrise and fucking shine7 am





Sit downdead weightand wonder


Unsureunsleptuncovered


The new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes


Through 5-3 eyes





Schoolyard freaks are freezingpushed to the ground again


I’m looking up and west for black to fill the sky


The sound of bottles breaking still breaking in my ears


They opened just in time to empty out and gouge away the years





Sit downdead weightand wonder


Unsureunsleptuncovered


The new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes


Through 5-3 eyes





Schoolyard freaks are bleedingdown getting kicked again


I can taste the earth and feel it in my eyes


The sound of cattle screamingstill screaming in my ears


They came in metal coffins -


Chained me up and hacked me off my years





Sit downdead weightand wonder


Unsureunsleptuncovered


The new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes


Through 5-3 eyes