Thousand Oaks

These reasons, they aren't so deep

(They aren't so deep)
These seasons, they're changing
They're changing me
The truth be told, nobody speaks
But this great divide is nothing that love can't breach
But what's it matter to me?
Have I lost sight of a college degree?
An abstract noun doesn't set me free
It only binds the bondage of war
That apparently only I can see

Only I, only I, only I, only I can see
(Only I can see)
Only I, only I, only I, only I can see
(Only I can see)

They're right to say I'm wrong
I've got no clue
Everything I've been taught
I thought it points to you
I steered myself around and around and around and around

We abuse your name
Just like a lover that can only feel their own pain, pain, pain
You get used to getting used
We abuse your name
We abuse your name

Yeah
The uniforms and stitches
The plane tickets he printed
The mistress computer systems
The targets investigated
Tuition gets more expensive
The churches need more donations
The system is solid crust
And you're nothing if you escape it

Slip through the cracks to God knows where
God knows, God knows, God knows where
Slip through the cracks to God knows where
God knows, God knows, God knows where

So how's it come to be?
The church and the army got so intertwined
You praise us all for ending up face down in the dirt
And scorn us if we ask why
They're right to say I'm wrong
I've got no clue
Everything I've been taught
I thought it points to you

Now, I don't even know who you are
But at least we have something in common
The military needed both of us to change who we are
In support of the occupation

We abuse your name
Just like a lover that can only feel their own pain, pain, pain
You get used to getting used
We abuse your name
We abuse your name

I got out, I got out, I got out
I got out while I could
(They aren't so deep)

I got out, I got out, I got out
I got out
I got out, I got out, I got out
(They aren't so deep)
I got out while I could
(They aren't so deep)
I got out, I got out, I got out
I got out