There's a breakdown on the run- way
And the time-less flights are gone
I'm a year a-head of my- self these days
And I'm locomotive strong
My ci- ty spread like can- non fire
In a yellow ner- vous state
I can't cut the ties that bind me
To horoscopes and fate
And I won't break and I won't bend
But some- day soon we'll sail away
To innocence and the bitter end
And I won't break and I won't bend
And with the last breath we ever take
We're gonna get back to the simple life aga____in
(All right!)
When we break out of this blindfold
I'm gonna take you from this place
Until we're free from this ball and chain
I'm still hard behind the eight
My ci- ty beats like ham- mered steel
On a shallow cru_____el rock
If we could walk proud after mi____dnight
We'd never have to stop
chorus (x2)