It took me everything I had to give all that I could Walk beside me while I sleep, steer me from the slumber wolf Tangled forest of the mind, speaks to me of self-despise Close the window through the pane, hear the sirens' serenade Could have been the comeback kid, the southpaw's legend glove to fill No shadow boxer but the one, a true contender for the crown Now this punch drunk, grinning soul In its corner begs no more Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud, but we hardly knew you The chamber echo never speaks, the rushing tide devours my feet No global warming fills this soul, for hell it freezes what it stole From the beggar's empty plate To our world that stuffs its face Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud, but we hardly knew you But these tired eyes are crashing, down on me While the paint never dries on these four walls that now suffocate me But tonight, maybe tonight all will be free Release unlock this prison door, it can't hold me anymore Serpent lied with sting of tail, hand of reason rusts the nail Now this punch drunk grinning soul In its corner begs no more Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud Hey now, stay proud, you were lost on a blue day Hey now, stay proud, but we hardly knew you We hardly knew you We hardly knew you We hardly knew you All rural decays got me feeling this way All the politicians we can't trust Promises broken the false worlds that they have spoken They don't give a shit about us But on the crowd in the dull to our own town halls They're givin' our country away It's progress they say, and this is the new way