Drained

They'll make you or break you They'll swallow you whole They'll find you and bind you To every word that they own But you know yhat you need them So you continue to feed them So I hope that you're in this For all the right reasons They can't make you feel something you don't believe in But they can threaten your future And everything in it When you fail to remember just where you've been When you can't tell up from down How do you write from within? And all I know is that they're They're trying to squeeze me dry They told me They own me And all I know is that they're They're trying to squeeze me dry I look in the mirror and what do I see? A man staring back at me who used to be me He looks so familiar He once had big dreams But I can't see that he's been drained of his soul and inte- grity