built to break me

Concrete dust is my perfume of pain
Steel beams sing as they crush my brain
The clock moves slow but my body goes fast
Each day feels like it could be my last


Wrenches and nails whisper dark lullabies
Sweat pours down from the ache in my skies
Piling bricks that just weigh on my heart
Breaking it down 'cause I can't even start


The site is a grave where my spirit lays
Trading health for these numbered days
Moderation's a ghost I just can't see
Crawling through work
Can't set myself free


Safety tape's red like the blood in my veins
Cranes cast shadows as tall as my chains
The jackhammer sings a relentless hymn
While I wonder how I gave in to the grim


The site is a grave where my spirit lays
Trading health for these numbered days
Moderation's a ghost I just can't see
Crawling through work
Can't set myself free


Dust storms blind
But my hope's been long blind
Echoes of orders replay in my mind
Built to conquer? No
Built just to decay
We sell our youth to survive the day