We Squirm

Do you seriously believe

That you will not be a prisoner?

Do you insistently try over and over

To seem free in your life

In the ways that you treat

Your loves and delights

And your troubles and fights, and me?

Well, let me say

Yeah, go ahead and try

But I say you will be captive along with me

We're stuck in the muck of our hearts

In fear that we'll find

That these feelings of ours

Start to seem like bars

So we squirm and sink deeper

Yes, we wriggle into jail cells

But I say, "Let feelings hold you"

I say, "Embrace your captors"

I say, "Get to know them deep"

Have no news you won't hear

Have no truths you won't tear

No hope that you'll ever find freedom

From your tyrant heart