"All Apart" lyrics

"Play the part of You
And learn it well

Step out for the first time
Leaving comfort behind
Here: your peers, your newest of fears
And you are to fall in line

Make peace with the unfamiliar
Its form, set in stone."

Hurried into a sense of Self
Rules unwritten, norms unspoken
Mores to remain unbroken
"You, who must bend to its folly
Unallowed to break."

Encouraged to flourish then punished all the same
All that you teach is all that you betray
No face to save when there's no face to lose
Which side of your mouth can I trust?

How dare you preach
That which you cannot practise

"You are not the same
Are you?"

To be deemed other than
Should free you of the heavy burden
Of living a life you weren't to live
Fighting a fight you weren't to win
But alas, I still feel the weight

So I retreat in search of solid ground
In hope a haven forms about me
With each of my patterns stitched on every flag
Each bridge burned, every arrow drawn

I am all apart
I abstain
I am recluse