One Last Salute - Hostage Calm

Restless with the endless hurt of waiting

Trembling with the fear of wasting

It all on someone else

All on something else

Somehow, I always knew they’d come for us

But even if this sad world caught us

Why come running with your hands up?

Yeah, you still play

The dream doesn’t die, it just walks away

And you don’t chase

Hope it stays near

It will never disappear

If you can just keep an eye on it

It won’t disappear…

But it’s never looked farther from here

Then maybe I wouldn’t be hanging around

Here in Old Watertown

Pushing pallets around for someone else

Lately, I’ve been crawling through the wires

Whispering as the Hurt transpires, Is anybody trying to get us out of here?

You still say

The dream doesnt die, it just walks away

You don’t chase and pray it

Does not disappear

It’s never looked farther than here

Wishing we could go back To when I felt something, anything

I need a reaction

My soul satisfaction

Because I see the writing on the wall…

In the walls of the hospitals

We’re screaming things that can’t be proved

How this whole thing was unstoppable

We were burdened with its proof

Like how the beating comes free for all

But you’ll pay for every bruise

You didn’t choose, still we lose

In the walls of the hospital

Screamed the ones they couldn’t use

We can’t hold ‘em responsible

But, we can’t let them run loose

Chain gang baby playing rock’n’roll

And the mischeif that ensued

So please, one last salute

For the way that we lose

We been knocked around

We been kicked down

When the floor gave out

We found common ground