[Verse 1]
I wake up tired
Same cracked ceiling
Same bills on the table
Same hungry feeling
They trade my hours
For a ribbon and smile
Take the hard-earned bread
Then call it denial
My hands are rough
My shoes are split
They sell me hope
Then bill me for it
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the crowd go low
Hear the old lies ring
Hands in the air
While the sirens sing
I keep my head down
Still the floor shakes
One more promise
And the whole thing breaks
[Chorus]
Pain in my bones (pain in my bones)
I carry the load (I carry the load)
Suffering comes
When the giants take hold
Pain in my bones (pain in my bones)
I carry the load (I carry the load)
We shout at the sky
Till the glass doors fold
[Drop]
Oh-oh-oh
Fall, fall down
Oh-oh-oh
Burn this crown
[Verse 2]
New face, same suit
Same empty hand
Same red words
In the same dead land
They point at us
Then they hide the knife
Make a feast of fear
Out of our life
Mothers count coins
At the kitchen sink
Fathers bite their tongue
So the children think
The books say safe
But the streets say harm
One eye on the ledge
One hand on the alarm
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the crowd go low
Hear the old lies ring
Hands in the air
While the sirens sing
I keep my head down
Still the floor shakes
One more promise
And the whole thing breaks
[Chorus]
Pain in my bones (pain in my bones)
I carry the load (I carry the load)
Suffering comes
When the giants take hold
Pain in my bones (pain in my bones)
I carry the load (I carry the load)
We shout at the sky
Till the glass doors fold
[Bridge]
If they want my fear
They can taste my steel
If they want my blood
Let the wound reveal
Choir of the broken
Rise in the dark (rise in the dark)
We were never made
For a cage and a mark
[Final Drop]
Oh-oh-oh
Fall, fall down
Oh-oh-oh
Burn this crown
Pain in my bones
Pain in my bones
We carry the load
We carry the load
Pain in my bones
Pain in my bones
Till the whole rotten wall
Comes crashing low