rockin' in rage

if i can't speak my truth for fear of bein' abused

i might as well be a mute

my voice never used

i'll be maligned

i'll be distant and trolled

if i can't be aligned

i'll be thrown in the cold

i don't think i've ever felt so out on the margin

i'm too old to fight with machetes and blades

i feel like a leper

like handin' my cards in

like i don't have the right to join the parades

i'm rockin' in rage

forward and back

my bones disengage

they splinter and crack

deep fire in the clock in one last rampage

drop all the lines

i'm rockin' in rage

rockin' in rage

oh

i won't leave the stage

oh

yeah

i'm rockin' in rage

if you can ride it right here

you know how to die

if you can conquer your fear

you'll get to fly

ooh

you'll get to fly

this must be your right

to get it down on the page

you know you must write

you know you must rage

you might learn to fly

get out on the stage

but you might as well lie

unless you can rage

i don't think i've ever felt so out on the margin

i'm too old to fight with machetes and blades

i feel like a leper

like handin' my cards in

like i don't have the right to join the parades

i'm rockin' in rage

well past my prime

denyin' the curtain

wastin' no time

so this is the carver

the death before age

i thought i'd be calm

but i'm rockin' in rage

rockin' in rage

oh

i won't leave the stage

i'm rockin' in rage

rockin' in rage

rockin' in rage

no

i won't leave the stage

'cause i'm rockin' in rage

rockin'

oh

my heart in a cage

if i can't speak my truth for fear of being abused

might as well be a mute

my voice never used

this must be my right

get it down on the page

i know i must write

i know i must rage

rage

rage