Battle Lines - Tyketto

I’ve been into bad business

I’ve been out of my mind

I’ve been playing in traffic

I’ve been suffering in kind

I’ve ben out in bad weather

A cause for concern

In the art of surrender

I’ve got so much to learn

Oh I know i should reach out

from my confines

These battle lines

But finding the words is as hard

As finding the time

(Chorus)

Battle lines

I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt

Battle lines

I keep saying I don’t need your help

Everybody else knows

I’m only keeping secrets from myself

I’ve been drawn to disaster

A willing volunteer

I’ve been brought to a standstill

By a burgeoning year

Got a bleak mental palette

But I paint what I see

I’ve been handing out secrets

To the landscape in me

Oh I don’t know

when I drew up theses battle lines

My confines

I play the part of the prisoner

And the jailer combined

Battle lines

I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt

Battle lines

I keep saying I don’t need your help

Everybody else knows

I’m only keeping secrets from myself

Alone in a lover’s twilight with

my doubts to keep me warm

Watching for a ray of sunlinght

to make it all transform

It will in time

Oh I know I should reach out

from my confines

These battle lines

But finding the words is as hard

As finding the time

Battle lines

I keep fighting all the hurt I’ve felt

Battle lines

I keep saying I don’t need your help

Everybody else knows

I’m only keeping secrets from myself (2X)