Taller Lyrics

I had a dog, more loyal than them all

Best one on four legs

And you could say

That his bark was louder than his bite was hard

And you'd be right

You'd have him pegged

Yeah you'd be right; still more wrong than you'd like

Because a house dog rarely needs to bite

But he always seems to beg

We are all warned of the monsters in our head

Long before they exist

And what I've found is

We grow in defense and rather than improve ourselves

We choose to cut them down

But we will learn, when we go to bed

after a long long day of chopping heads,

Still no taller than we were

So you can take a deep breath

Because more important than

The fact that failure's never been an option

Is the truth that success will always be

And more important than

The ideals that all evil ends in prison

Is the present tense

Where you are good and free

So don't settle

'Cause your fate is kept

In a paper envelope inside your head

That doesn't seal well, but gets the message sent