<PROXY>
I'm a surrogate
I'm our type of land in civil rest
I'm your excuse to know
For our superior
I will undertake
I will [bad word] ..

Imperfection you will find
They're close to us
They're after us
They're right here

This endeavor is not mine
It's a deadly trip
The damage at our feet

I'm stronger than I was before
No, sir-ee, I push these walls
Like I found you holding on

Direction by the open door
All the chances I ignore
Like I stand still holding on...

The day is done
Nothing left to say
Pressing hand in hands
Wishing I had known my place
To take a stand
The year under the fall
That's a reprimand
I'm here to help you through...

Is there for like it seems
Living in this secret through a dream
It's dark and I can't see
Gather broken shards of self-esteem...

<RETROSPECT>
Burning bridges as I cower beneath
trying to salvage the debris my devotion
tied around your waist lest you fall 
no one seems to sense the strain 
no one seems to know...

Burning bridges as I cower beneath
trying to salvage the debris my devotion
tied around your waist lest you fall 
no one seems to sense the strain 
no one seems to know...

I don't begin to proclaim that I know
I can't continue down this road

dweling on what [bad word] to pass
no force alive will bring it back
I would know
I can feel the pressure getting steeper
with every life lost
you hope that I won't see the light
of day in time [bad word] 
with no conviction founded just
judgement contorted based on lust
give me strenght!
your assumption brings to a conclusion
of no consequence 
and I refuse to play into your hands for your appeal

Inadequate, Inadequate
I know... I know... I know
I know...
I've hoped... I've hopep
you'll see me

<RESIST>
Turn back time
Reason why
Break neck speed
History

Waiting (waiting)
Wading (wading)
Exasperated
 [bad word] 
Tethered
Hoping forever

No! I tried to settle bets with my own soul
Bless my lips for the first time before you don't
Gripping to the last touch of your hand I grow to loathe
Hope that you remember just how far I'll go
Spend the rest of my life wishing I'm enough

Resist.
Resist.
Resist.

Resist.
Resist.
Resist.