Absolution Denied

Get your story straight
It wasn't very convincing
So drop the act
I suggest you let this sink in
No false pretense
It doesn't make any sense
And no less
Consider this a lesson

Redemption
Confession
If you will
I have seen the rise
I have seen the fall

When I look at you
I see them all
I have seen it in your eyes
The road to your own demise

Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What the hell is going on, I feel so strange)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What was I thinking)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(When I laid my hand upon your face and said)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What may come will come but I will never stray)

It's so tragic
It's dramatic
It's pathetic, it's heretic
Is it an entire nation?
The dynamics and the statics
It's a simple observation
They offer no solutions
We turn out to be statistics
It's the cynic and the saint

We do not feel ashamed
We do not feel a thing
We do not feel a thing
We do not feel a thing
We do not feel a thing

I have seen the rise
I have seen the fall
When I look at you, I see them all
I have seen it in your eyes
The road to your own demise

Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What the hell is going on, I feel so strange)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What was I thinking)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(When I laid my hand upon your face and said)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What may come will come but I will never stray)
The minute you came here, you came here to lose

I have seen the rise
I have seen the fall
When I look at you, I see them all
I have seen it in your eyes
The road to your own demise

Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What the hell is going on, I feel so strange)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What was I thinking)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(When I laid my hand upon your face and said)
Falling down and I can't get a grip
(What may come will come but I will never stray)