Where The Air Is Thin

It's not the perfect place to be
The water tastes like gin
Jesus never came around
Up here
Where the air is thin

Here people leave their mark with death
And leave the world to wonder why
Here nobody sees you bleed
Cause you seethe from the inside

The flame doesn't always flicker
The night isn't always your friend
The days become too hard to trudge through
So you take pills to stay in bed

Everybody looks at you funny
They've never seen one quite like you
But isn't that the price you pay
For making bedfellows with the blues

You've dabbled with guns
You've dabbled with knives
You've stowed away on hearts
Then at sea you were denied

You've searched for shelter
Under dens of rock
Trying to keep warm
When barren bones is all you've got

Searching for someone to save you
Cause you can't save yourself
It's hard to grasp the hand
Of someone you could do without

But the stairs, they keep growing
And the mountain never stops
Until suddenly your in the atmosphere
And the first to taste the raindrops

God looks at you and makes amends
And you hold no ill will
Though you've suffered in silence
Though you've suffered in scream
Though you've suffered enough to fulfill a demon's dreams

It's cause you've made a home
Out of patch and stitch
Constructing a domicile with your broken feathers
Lying down where each left their switch

For now you're high above
The ones who yielded pain
Thanking them for their violence
Cause it yielded you great gain

And when they think their thoughts
That damn you straight to hell
All you can do is grin
Cause you could kiss the sun
Up here
Where the air is thin