Trapped In Your Own Body

The hand that no longer obeys
The voice that chokes before the sentence
You're still whole in there
Locked behind your own muscles

The medicine exists, but the price doesn't fit
Into what's left of the life fading from you

Trapped in your own body
Screaming without sound
Trapped in your own body
The world has no time for you

Research halted for lack of funding
Waiting list longer than the time you have left
The rich get access, the rest get promises
And promises won't hold your head up

Trapped in your own body
Screaming without sound
Trapped in your own body
The world has no time for you

It's not the disease that hurts the most
It's knowing there was a cure and no one cared

Trapped in your own body
Until the last breath
The world watched, arms crossed

Screaming without sound