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I need to help others to help myself.

I need to do right so I can face the wrong.

I need to do right cause now I can belong.

Yet still the blood must fall, cause I can't cry at all.

One drop of as bitter as the next.

Does it matter what it's made of?

My addiction, my weakness, my tarnished or my true

I'll just trade my paints today

And wish my problems far, far away

Walking, just walking, was all my body did.

I was walking, and thinking, wonderin' if I was better dead.

The sidewalk cracks were growing,

The trees were void of leaves,

Brave to show their dead

My face was right, the color bright

Because I chose to hide instead

The suffering must go somewhere,

What I don't take another surely will.

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I look at life and feel the strife,

The sadness I have caused

What else is new

This is all true

& it won't change at all

The blue sky

Has turned gray

The birdies fall from trees

The soul song

He strings along

Is sour and off beat

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The world is falling to pieces

& the one to blame won't care

The puppeteer will turn their head

Let it happened to someone else instead

The hand jerks

The strings are pulled

The earth shakes all about

The colors fade

But there's a change of course ahead

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The sacrifice is made

The world comes out unscathed

But the same can not be said

For the one poor person laying in the streets

God rests peacefully our dead

Choices

So many choices

For the one who'll make no more

They were all right, though uptight

Someone should've helped to clear their head

But who would?

Think you should?

Now that they've made this choice instead

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