Your stitches are all out

But your scars are healing wrong

The helium balloon inside your room has come undone

And it's pushing up at the ceiling

And the flickering lights it cannot get beyond

Everyone takes turns

Now it's yours to play the part

And they're sitting all around you

Holding copies of your chart

And the misery inside their eyes is

Synchronized and reflecting into yours

Hold on

One more time with feeling

Try it again breathing's just a rhythm

Say it in your mind until you know that the words are right

This is why we fight

You thought by now you'd be

So much better than you are

You thought by now they'd see

That you had come so far

And the pride inside their eyes

Would synchronized into a love you've never known

So much more than you've been shown

Hold on

One more time with feeling

Try it again breathing's just a rhythm

Say it in your mind until you know that the

Words are right

This is why we fight

This is why we fight