It's not the pain I'm used to it
   I'ts feeling like I'm already dead
   I see from the ceiling a misty spirit
   Rising from a place in my head
   And I never even get to go down
   Down in flames
  
   I said friend you have a life to see
   Why do you scare me so?
   All the suffering's a mystery to me
   I can't even pretend to know
   So you'll never even get to go down
   Down in flames
  
   We had plans to explore the stars
   Be rejected by stage door guards
   Mining for gold as the time unreels
   Not stifling behind suburban wheels
   Not stifling behind suburban wheels
  
   The plan was too burn up when the air was clear
   We'd all wear our visors down
   An arcwelder spark in the atmosphere
   Not this man-sized hole in the ground
  
   Now your father's face is frozen between anger and tears
   Your mother's hair's amazingly gray
   And I'm seeing these friends for the first time in years
   It's icicle reunion day
  
   And you never even got to go down
   Down in flames
   You never even got to go down
   Down in flames.