Black Masks & Gasoline

Singer:Rise Against

Album:Revolutions Per Minute

Simply because you can breathe

Doesn't mean you're alive

Or that you really live

This life has taken its toll

And she just doesn't know

How much more she can give

But here

at the top of the world

Where I raise my hands and I clench my fists

They stand before me below

Demanding the answers with flips of a switch

I don't understand where you got this idea

So deeply engrained in your head

(That this world) Is something that you must impress

Because I couldn't care less

A need for revolution's rising

It comes to the surface

gasping for air

We're not putting up with this planet

One more day

much less one more year

I don't understand where you got this idea

So deeply engrained in your head

(That this world) Is something that you must impress

Because I couldn't care less

So here and now

in our rotting nation

The blood

it pours

it's all on our hands now

We live in fear of our own potential

To win

to lose

it's all on our hands now

I have an American Dream

But it involves black masks and gasoline

One day I'll turn these thoughts into screams

At a world that turned its back down on me

I don't understand where you got this idea

So deeply engrained in your head

(That this world) Is something that you must impress

'Cause I couldn't care less