Battling the rattling of your cage Your skill set skews to staring off into space And the rain sways to a grey place where it stays Gotta get out, gotta check out, gotta break Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Hey buddy, Rome wasn't built in a day It was brick by brick, persevere, that's the way They get anxious when they're all alone, people say Need a remedy to that prophecy but they don't pray Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out In the humming of an unknown frequency In the milky eyes of a blind man falling to his knees There's a sound out there ringing out just for me That familiar, friendly, painful melody Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out Oh, checkin' out