Blistering Towers

So you feel you've been taken down for awhile now
And with your sore hands you fight to cut them out

The rain falls like bullets in the wind every night
The days fly by faster than anything I could fight
Change would do us all some good
But with my cornered legs, I can't handle as much as I should
And with my word on fire and my concentration burning
There's nothing I can do but slide through the collision that left us yearning
A love has died, a friendship worn down to the already frayed core
I tried to hold you back but a rage was already born
I should have grabbed your before we wandered into a darker place before
Instead I strained at these very bars that could never be torn
I had my doubts, but still I could have warned you change was coming soon
How could I keep you satisfied when I couldn't even tell myself the truth

And with my tiring years, I start to tell myself I'm stronger than this
We only have four walls and they teach us how to break through without our fists
We are falling but we are picked up by the bone-chilling ground
We speak out and we hold close, but our own thoughts were suffocated until they drowned
I see you've made it to the other side safe and sound
But it hurts that the ones I longed to see couldn't make it around
If I could stand I would show you how far I could walk without stalling
But my feet seem so blistered from the falling
I lay in bed and figure the only person I've become
I guess my veins are tougher and more fortunate than some
In my mind, I can see the towers fall upon me in my eyes
My hands do all the killing, as the damage is soaring in size

So I feel I've been on my own for a year or so
But with my stained hands, I take the sinking sky and pull it below