My heart's wrapped in barbed wire, Trapped in a glass case With every beat it bleeds Bleeds love, and want, and fear Everything I feel when I think too hard, When I let my mind wander off the paved path, Into the darkness beyond It bleeds with the fear I'll never see you again Shards of broken dreams Breaking me apart at the seams I've always been a hopeless romantic I built a temple out of abstract love, Its walls a mosaic of other people's hearts, But I'm stuck screaming at the gates My tears watering the flowers that other people pick as they walk past I want to fall in love the same way I want to fly But gossamer dreams dissolve when they hit the light And Icarus plummets, his wings not strong enough to hold him aloft I plummet. Is any of this real? A whirlwind of memories flash past, Spinning too fast for me to grasp And I think maybe they belong to someone else Maybe they were never mine Because how could they be? I'm encased in glass If I think too hard, I'll shatter So I shove it all back in that box Throw away the key Except I think my heart is suffocating Slowly rotting from the inside out It beats at a different speed And I can't keep up Why can't I be like you? Why can't I feel what you feel? Be who you want me to be, who I want to be? Why can't my heart be free?