pennies

I’m in love with the sound of this world
And scared by the piercing tone of my life as it falls apart
Like a penny on the track I am flattened by this world
Placed oh, oh, ohhhh, so carefully on that hard metal rail, don’t fall off, oh no not until your life hits you back
Back into that hollow shell you call a mind
And then through the dark you see a light
As it comes closer you see it dim
And all around the world starts to fade
But does it really?
Oh no, you’re not alone. No we’re not alone,
Here we are coloring this bleak world bronze,
Flattened out for the world to see
Like pennies on the track
And that light that came so slow? Just a trick
Our minds try to fix us
But our hearts just won't let them
Picked up and put away
They say they like the way we shine
But how can we shine when they smother us so?
Did we have to go through that, just so they would like us?
What about how we were?
What was so wrong w/ us then?
So young,
Pennies in their pockets, to be used and sold
Now what? We’re worthless filled with all that they say we need
But it doesn’t really matter
Nothing really does,
So what if they like us now?
It won’t last,
They throw us in a pile and that’s were we’ll stay
Until another day, but lets just stay,
Who says we want to go?
I like us now lets just stay
Like we’re, pennies on a track
The train coming fast
This time we can choose
Tumble off oh so gently onto the ground
It may be damp, but at least we chose it, at least we have each other
Lets stay how we are
Screw them and their plans
We could do what we want if only we were something more,
Than pennies on the tracks.