Four Walls - Rufus Warner

I lost my head again Threw away my only friend For just one night, to feel alive And I slit my wrists for that bitch! Without thinking a bit! How could I be so dumb, to think she'd stay Run away, run away. Run away, run away. Run away, runaway. Run away, run away The air is tense I feel pathetic My life's spinning on a wheel Into another, state of affliction Can't seem to get myself through this hell I need to find a better way I need to find a better way I've blown all that I'm worth What's left is nothing but hurt All the blood has been stripped and lost I don't even like me I'm not something pure Turn on the light before I fade away The air is tense I feel pathetic My life's spinning on a wheel Into another, state of affliction Can't seem to get myself through this hell Inside these four walls, Inside these four walls Inside these four walls, Inside, I explode Escape into another world to get me far away from here And I, expect too much from me 'cause I've been throwin' my life away I've thrown my life away I've thrown my life away I need to find a better way The air is tense I feel pathetic My life's spinning on a wheel Into another, state of affliction Can't seem to get myself through this hell I need to find a better way I need to find a better way

There's a shotgun There's a shotgun over my knee There's a lucky one There's a lucky one whose blessing I need I think I lied to you No she ain't so lucky I told her he's safe But she just can't trust me These four old walls closing in on me If they get too close, I just might need A little gas and a lighter to burn them down And a fella in blue to escort me to town I thought I was safe Thought there was nothing you could do to me Then I turned you away And suddenly the blind could see Now I'm laying in bed And I'm writing a verse About killing a man Putting him in the dirt These four old walls closing in on me If they get too close, I just might need A little gas and a lighter to burn them down And a fella in blue to escort me to town I think I lied to you No she ain't so lucky I told her he's safe But she just Just Just can't trust me These four old walls closing in on me If they get too close, I just might need A little gas and a lighter to burn them down And a fella in blue to escort me to town These four old walls I'll set ablaze If they just won't burn, I'll get down and pray Then I'll beg my God to burn me too But he'll say no and I'll blame you

I grew up memorizing all the cracks in the wall Staring up at the ceiling, watching particles fall See, I prayed every day for a change to be made And I'd wait to be saved, oh no Up at night, hiding under covers, found my escape Shut my eyes and let the bass buzz into my brain See, I knew I was destined for bigger and better But never said a thing I assumed that there was only room For my dreams in my dreams So I'd sleep and repeat 'til the moon went home And I didn't know where it'd take me But made me so crazy in love with it Then the universe aligned Oh, with what I had in mind Who knew there was a life Behind those four pink walls? Now I wake up to a different bedroom every day Living up in the clouds, thinking of how it all changed Used to sit and watch paint dry, amazed by the limelight I can't ever be afraid I assumed that there was only room For my dreams in my dreams So I'd sleep and repeat 'til the moon went home And I didn't know where it'd take me But made me so crazy in love with it Then the universe aligned Oh, with what I had in mind Who knew there was a life Behind those four pink walls? Oh, the universe aligned With what I wanted all this time I knew there was a life Behind those four pink walls All of the days that I wasted gazing outside the window Impatient frustrations let out into my pillow Lied awake at night while my head wandered And I wondered why Things were different, everything shifted overnight Went from when boredom strikes to Ms. Star on the Rise It was all in an instant, man But those four pink walls Now I kinda miss them, man Then the universe aligned With what I wanted all this time I knew there was a life Behind those four pink walls Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Oh-na-na-na Oh-oh-oh Those four pink walls

So when the saints go marching in They won't be singing for your sins They just hope to hell you've learnt something living and breathing Everybody dies with the debt No silence, watching death is how we live Take it or leave it Don't waste your breath I clear my mind, deny real life Define "here" without borders, possessions or enemies Everybody dies with a debt We all die for a life that we fear we will only forget Or confess to a god that we know we only hear in ourselves Bottle it up, let your problems distill Forget your dreams, or fulfil them Leave no trace, waste away It's time for change So when the saints go marching in They won't be singing for your sins They just hope to hell you've learnt something living and breathing Four walls in this prison But I can still see the river Four walls in this prison Lies to poison your decision in life, take note Don't ignore it, now you know I saved my soul I sold it to the open road I found hope in the wreckage of progress Trophies shattered and stained (do what you're told) There's a mould to be broken A light burning over your name (and I saved my soul) But I never said I wasn't the culprit Never said I wasn't deceived (and I saved my soul) Just trying to rewrite the wrongs That were written on me (and I saved my soul) Everybody dies with a debt We all die for a life that we fear we will only forget Or confess to a god that we know we only hear in ourselves So when the saints go marching in They won't be singing for your sins They just hope to hell you've learnt something living and breathing