[Verse 1]
            
Milemarker twe

              
nty-seven says

        
 we're on the 

way to Heaven
           
And I smile at

              
 the passenger

     
 seat
        
Forty miles fr

om Chicago
         
There is snow 

on the windshi

eld
           
And you're dow

              
ntown dragging

           
 your feet

[Verse 2]
             
Now I'm circli

              
ng the block a

      
round Union Ce

ntral Station
             
And there are 

             
bullets flying

             
 into the car
             
It's the same 

              
as it's always

     
 been
            
It's the same 

              
as it's always

    
 been

[Pre-Chorus]
           
Two-hundred mi

les from Chica

go:
         
There is blood

 on the windsh

ield
            
And I am reeli

              
ng as you gath

               
er your things
              
I said I don't

 
 know what to 

do anymore
      
As if I knew w

hat to do befo

re
            
I can fuck up 

           
almost anythin

g

[Chorus]
             
I don't think 

             
that I would e


xactly call it

 love
         
But it's dripp

ing down my co

nsciousness
          
As you're slip

ping down my l

ungs

[Verse 3]
             
I want to buil

              
d you a protes

         
t out of stick

s and rocks
              
I find in the 

            
backyard behin

      
d the house yo

u grew up in
             
In loving memo

          
ry of all our 

          
nonconformity
           
I want to sing

 you a signal 

that reaches

only the ears
            
Of young disen

           
franchised str

aight white bo

ys
             
Because that w

              
ould feel norm

      
al, and none o

f
           
this does

[Chorus] 
             
I don't think 

             
that I would e


xactly call it

 love
         
But it's dripp

ing down my co

nsciousness
            
As you're slip

ping down my l

ungs
             
Save it for a 

              
rainy day and 

      
maybe then you

'll see
            
That I am like

              
 the earth, ol

             
d man, there's

 no way around

 me

[Verse 4]
            
But even in my

   
 dreams
              
I still don't 

           
know the diffe

 
rence between
            
What it is I w

        
ant and what i

            
t is I need
              
I wanna see yo

     
u be brave
              
I wanna see yo

    
u surviving
            
I wanna see bo

th of us
              
Prospering and

   
 thriving sepa

rately

[Verse 5]
             
I want the cat

          
harsis of know

ing
            
Something bad'

            
s about to hap

pen
             
But also knowi

            
ng that I can'

    
t do anything

about it
             
Because your n

              
ew house just 

      
don't shine
              
Quite like the

            
 one you grew 

   
up in used to
             
I wanna come a

   
nd visit
            
I wanna see th

    
is through, bu

t
           
I never will b

              
ecause you're 


just not what 

I

need
             
And I am just 

            
not what you w

ant
              
Though you're 

            
in everyone I 


meet and

[Outro]
             
We'll say fuck

            
 the banks but

             
 we'll still u


se
           
them every day
             
And when we fi

              
ght amongst ou

  
rselves
            
The banks will

     
 say “Okay
              
Have you been 

             
spending all y

    
our capital on
            
causes you dee

             
m just? You ke

   
ep doing what
            
you can, we'll

            
 keep doing wh

      
at we must.”
             
So despite wha

             
t you have lea


rned
            
In songs for w

              
hich you'd tak

   
e a bullet
             
You won't find

           
 objective tru

th
            
In a final rhy

      
ming couplet

A couplet, a couplet, a couplet...