Sit in the hallway, mirror at your back
Listen to scraps of a world gone wrong
You empathize, try to
Apologize, and they say, painfully,
Just run along

Stand in the doorway, lined face under your skin
Emotions on the threshold can’t cross through
The eyes say go, the mouth frowns
Pins you down
Walk the legs and stay the soul

Then you go online, to the grapevine
To catch the latest hollow news
Find what else to confuse

How to follow when they don’t want you to go
How to find what they want you too well to know
How to speak in both innocence and true emotion
How to bend and twist that strangely learned devotion
How to make patience rest while worry steps aside
Take the cart and ride
Through mazes where you’re given maps
But no clue which to use
It’s time to choose
It’s time to choose
It’s time to choose