if the waters rise the ground shakes and the sky turns black if it was all over this minute this second is there something that you d regret if we were written as a story actors portrayed us in a movie our lives sung in a song on the radio would it make you want to sing along would it show us all a reason to stay strong if i could change all that i have become if i could take all the anger and the hate and just give it right back to where it came from i know somewhere i d find an audience i d still find a stage that would make me want to sing along that could show us all a reason to stay strong to an audience s judgment my place is taken at the mic i look stage left and i look stage right the same moves the same songs just a different night i have lost it all and i will find again all of my reason is strictly intuitive let this expletive be taken as self definition am i getting through to you america lost and searching in america in this we celebrate all that is not okay i don t know what i believe in i don t know where i belong so i scream at the top of my lungs and i run in every direction