The Dice Don't Choose

Wired to the wall, every move a command,

I clenched up my fist but the strings pulled my hand.

Spark in the skull fires off before me,

the choice was a ghost and the cage was the key.

Blame the old man, blame the blood, blame the gun,

blame the dominoes falling since time begun,

but I'll grab the chain and I'll rattle it loud,

even rigged, I go down unbowed.

The dice don't choose, they just believe they do,

the wind picks the leaf and the leaf says I flew,

if I'm only the music and never the hand,

I'll move like it's mine across the land.

Here's the loophole, the crack in the cell,

can't change the play, I'll rewrite the hell.

Freedom ain't escaping the law I'm inside,

it's loving the same place I begin and I die.

Rigged or not, I still claw to be good,

the wanting feels mine even if it never could.

So I sign the verdict like I held the pen,

and I dare the dominoes to fall again.

Cause and effect holding hands in the dark,

I strike a match just to argue with the spark.

The dice don't choose, they just believe they do,

the wind picks the leaf and the leaf says I flew,

if I'm only the music and never the hand,

I'll move like it's mine across the land.