Let Babylon Burn - Becoming My Own Stranger Let Babylon Burn

HE QUIT A JOB to find his calling
Paid to learn another trade
And he quit halfway through the training
Said he'd made the same mistake
Sold the tools to clear some payments
STILL HAD BILLS HE COULDN'T MEET
Now the thing he'd caught his freedom
Means he can't afford to leave
He's becoming his own stranger.
Doesn't
Trust his own damn head
EVERY TIME HE THINKS HE'S POUND AWAY, he
Loses something else instead
He wants to be a hero
BUT HE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT TAKES
EVERY ROAD TO SOMETHING better
Brings him back to his mistake
He give everything to something
If he knew which thing was his
But he gives a little more away each
Time he thinks it is
Puts his money on another future
Signs before his nerve gives out.
Then
Lies awake till morning trying to find a
Way back out
He's becoming his own stranger.
Doesn't
Trust his own damn head
Every time he thinks he's found a way
He loses something else instead
He wants to be a hero
But he don't know what that takes
Every road to something better
Brings him back to his mistakes
He thought the next thing would be different
He thought he'd know this time
I thought
I THOUGHT I KNEW THIS time
I WANTED TO BE A HERO
I still DO, BUT I CAN'T TELL
WHAT I believe from what
I need to be true.
I don't know if
I'm changing or just running from my choice.
I said this
Is who
I am.
Till
I don't believe my own voice
I'm becoming my own stranger.
Can't
Trust my own damn head.
Every time I think
I found a way, I lose something
Else instead
I want to be a hero but
I don't know what that takes
Every road to something better brings me
Back to my mistake
I keep saying that ain't like me
But it's all
I EVER DO
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW myself when
I never follow through?
I can't
Keep calling it a new start
When there's less left every time
I'm running out of things to lose.
And
I'm still changing my mind
I'm becoming my own stranger.
Can't
Trust my own damn head.
Every time I think
I found a way, I lose something
Else instead.
I still want to be like you
I don't know what that takes
Every road to something better
Brings me back to my mistakes
I wanted to be someone
I could count on someone
I could understand now
I'm standing in what's left of my life
Trying to work out who
I am oh