Life Between The Lines

Do you know the code?
What do we call this thing
Distilled and still disgusting
Do we just walk with it?
And hope it dies
No matter how weak this drink
Twenty deep and you're still under
Bring out the word
Bring out the feeling
Is implication more revealing?

Do you know the code
Or was it never taught to you?
Was it never put on you?
Weren't you ever told you can't be born into it?

Deeper than disparity
A shred of the curtain hangs in front of me
A tattered piece from when I was a boy
What do we call this thing?
What do we call this thing?
Back of your throat, it's almost there
It's just the stitch of what you wear
You weren't born into it
No, you weren't born into it

Do you know the code
Or was it never taught to you?
Was it never put on you?
Weren't you ever told you can't be born into it?
Was it never taught to you?
Was it never put on you?
Hits you like a brick when you realize
You're born into it

Life between the lines can't get sweeter
Life between the lines
Aren't you feeling freer?
Aren't you feeling freer?
Life between the lines
Life between the lines

Do you know the code
Or was it never taught to you?
Was it never put on you?
Weren't you ever told?
Weren't you ever told?
Weren't you ever told you can't be born into it?

From the streets to the steps
Put generation names to rest
We sing out, out
To silence
We sing out
We sing out
To silence, the let down
From the streets to the steps
Put generation names to rest
We sing out, out
To silence, the let down
Let us not be shameful forever
Let us not be shameful forever