Slight Figure of Speech

They say you gotta lose a couple fights to win

It's hard to tell from where I'm sittin'

They say that this is where the fun begins

I guess it's time that I was quittin'

A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?

They said, I hope that you would never change

I went and cut my hair

They said, don't take your business to the big-time

I bought us tickets there, oh

A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?

What did you expect and what did you forget?

That to live you must let go of me with each step

It becomes a progression I won't let regret manifest to aggression

Are you to assess what I've been, what I am, or become?

Did you stop to accept how pathetically dumb it can be

To attack those around 'cause you're true to color

A town, a time, or a place?

It's not you, it's not mine and besides it is gone

You never will find it again

But I don't wanna fight, I just ask, let me be

I won't give you the chance to be my enemy

So go home, think it through

A jet plane and a big idea

I jump over the sea

What ifs hot on my trail

But they can't catch me, no

A slight figure of speech

I cut my chest wide open

They come and watch us bleed

Is it art like I was hoping now?