(Spoken)
The most dangerous criminal I've ever known, has grown up sentenced to life serving time inside a maximum security prison that I call my rib cage

From age nothing until now he has somehow managed to escape a total number of time and time again
Which if I took the time to add up would equal every instance between now and then
This is what happens when heart turns escape artist
When heart refuses to let missed moments multiply themselves into a monumental waste until all that remains of the fraction of a life
This is heart as Harry Houdini gently reminding me that as a child I planted bricks into the ground and grew walls
I once upon a time loved to chase rainbows so learned how to cry waterfalls
From behind these bars I've heard the lovers issuing recalls on all the
"I love you" 's they ever said but never meant
And if you ever promised me forever I'm still here wondering where the time went

(Sung)
You've had me put away, locked up, locked down, living underground, prison bound, and I never made a sound 'til now
You won't keep me here for long
You won't keep me here for long
Your glare keeps holdin' me down, I will soon be found, I will soon be found
Your glare keeps holdin' me down, I will soon be found, I will soon be found

(spoken)
These memories and others like them stem from giving away my today and having no tomorrows
My yesterday's wear halos because they died when I was sentenced to life for killing time
It once seemed sane that I once wished I was born with out a rib cage so that my heart would be free to love you completely
On the inside I am collecting the sharp looks you shot to me
Through bars and bulletproof glass, through mass media and misinformation, I am enrolling my lips in the higher education needed to speak your name with the same urgency we heard the night when we set off fire alarms and Richter scales
In both prisons and jails I have sat in my cell passing the time of a life sentence by casting shadow puppets of doubt
I have collected the sharp looks you shot to me
They're what I've using to tunnel out
(sung)
Like a line from a B-Grade actor, my cage has got a secret fracture, any minute I'll escape my capture
You won't keep me here for long
Your glare keeps holdin' me down, I will soon be found
(keep me here for long)
I will soon be found...