Dead Ends + Odd Times for Odd Times (Live at the Hive) Lyrics

Strike a spark but the fire won't catch

Waking to a fate you did not expect

Put in good karma but can't cash that check

Despite your aims you can't evade

The dead ends

Severing your visions in shreds

And cutting you off

And spitting you out

Without a map

And the path is lost

Then darkness starts to swarm you

Can't see your hands before you

Time ceases to exist

Fading faster as you slip your grip

And once you get the hang of it

It all shifts

Circling each day like a mouse in a maze

If only a bird's eye view could show you the way

To glean from each mistake and not become its prey

The crowd awaits your great escape

To the unknown, a new home

For your true form, or your delusions

Of what you think that others think

That you should be doing

Beyond the dead ends

Severing your rhythms in fragments

And cutting you off

And spewing you out

Without a beat

And the time is lost

Just tap your foot to find it

And you'll be reminded

Of how your body used to move

Before you had to pay your dues

Now what has become of you

Just tell yourself it's alright

Though it might be contrived

And all in your mind

To just fall in line

Is not in my design

It's okay to

Not know the way through it all

And those who claim to

You can trust about as much

As any old point of view

When the direction changes

The whole landscape rearranges

By the intentions and the angles

That'll send you on your way

To an early grave

Or be the saving grace

You half believe in

You gotta know right now

'Cause it was never said out loud

Let's get the record straight

I am not one to wait too long

So let's get it all out in the air

Do you really care

For that which you cannot compare

Keep your heart close to home

After all that's all we really know

Add up all of the little things at hand

And all the time that's passed

Hang onto the friends who will last

Hold fast to all that which keeps you here

Beyond the glowing fear of death

What keeps your heart sincere