Life Or Death

I keep a lighter in my pocket

Since the fall of 2005

I was there, waiting on a revelation

I was lucky to get out alive

I was looking for a name

For a place to begin again

Was I a man dreaming of a drug

Or a drug dreaming of a man?

Life or death

Transmissions from the liberation front

Broken English on invisible wires

So far gone, I didn't cast a shadow

I believed I was born a liar

I was looking for a name

For a place to begin again

I was a man losing his voice

For words misused and things unsaid

Life or death

Hard won the sweet and aimless morning

The second son who learned to speak by counting

Is moving on

Well, free of understanding

I was lucking to get out alive