If the roles were reversed
Could you take a walk in my shoes?
They're resting on eggshells

And I've got so much to lose
If I gave voice to those terms
When I conveyed my mind

Or I said what I was thinking
I'd be destroyed or ostracized


[Pre-Chorus:]
Fear of offense
Fear of ruin

Fear of violence
Fear of the end


[Chorus:]
Turn the tables on me
Turn the tables on you

Everyone's inside out
Change the rules of the game
Play the game, level the blame

Inversion of all you know
Inversion of all you know


An olive branch held our for appea!@&(t
Taken along with our hand
A gun to the head of logic

Reason already shot out back
An elegant source of irony
The poetry of the newly damned

Dropping the lamp at the golden door
Undermining all for which we stand


[Pre-Chorus, Chorus x2]