from the album “Stone Sour”
GET INSIDE
Seed, got to let it grow, why you got to watch when I let it feed?Better look into the mirror for the face you hide away every day.
But I don’t give a fuck; I let it roll, I smoke the old,
Got to run, got to rend, got to maim, got to make it through another maze, stay away.
Please wring the blood from my hands.
Don’t pretend that you understand me, I don’t even want you looking at me.
Motherfucker, get inside.
Christ, have you seen this guy? Make you sick, gonna peel away all the impurities,
Cause all you want to do is keep curing me, but I don’t give a fuck, I kill everyone,
You’ll be mopping up blood and guts and all the shit when I’m done.
Isn’t this fun? Give me a gun and I’ll tell you all the secrets I hide before I run.
Please wring the blood from my hands.
Don’t pretend that you understand me, I don’t even want you looking at me.
Motherfucker, get inside.
Maybe if you look away, I can slip away, got to get away (run, motherfucker!),
Right now I stare at shit, I’m a heretic, but I’ll never give you none of it.
Tied up in the back of the lab, laid on the slab, got the gift of gab, what you want from me?
I don’t even know I got a damn disease, but I know you want to kill me.
ORCHIDS
You hold me inside your iris like a terminal stain on life.You condescend to my primal brain and twist me around like a knife.
Can’t begin to explain the feelings I have restrained,
Don’t ask me how I am because you’re too busy planning your epitaph.
Let me tell you don’t try to be the one person who has stayed just to say they never left me.
Aggravated, complicated, someone say it, God, I never learn.
You keep me hidden behind a curtain, an audible human display.
You feed me orchids to give me courage and keep me in line with disdain.
Can’t begin to explain the feelings I have restrained,
Don’t ask me how I am because you’re too busy planning your epitaph.
Let me tell you don’t try to be the one person who has stayed just to say they never left me.
Aggravated, complicated, someone say it, God, I never learn.
I have nothing left for you, you left me with nothing.
I live at arm’s length and die a little, between your constants by day.
I want my soul back before it’s over, I can’t even wish you away.
COLD READER
I can only hurt your case, it’s written on your face, you always come to me,I won’t be used, but I can’t fight you anymore, I know I’ll open up the door.
No, I won’t, I can’t, not anymore, one more time and I think I’ll fucking die.
Why do I always have to suffer the consequences?
Stay away from who I am, cause I know what you are, I can’t believe you’re here,
Then again, you know that I can’t fight you anymore, I know I’ll open up my soul.
No, I won’t, I can’t, not anymore, one more time and I think I’ll fucking die.
Why do I always have to suffer the consequences?
Stop, I know your goddamn game, it’s always been the same, the story hasn’t changed,
And neither will you, but I can’t fight you anymore, I know I’ll open up my soul.
No, I won’t, I can’t, not anymore, one more time and I think I’ll fucking die.
Why do I always have to suffer the consequences?
BLOTTER
I only wanted just to touch you, I couldn’t bear it if you leave,It doesn’t matter if I scare you, I only wanted someone else’s skin,
To feel you there, touch my face, keep me whole, help me see my life, give me your life.
I didn’t want to be the first one, I haven’t ever been discreet,
It isn’t over by a long shot, I didn’t want to be the only one
To feel you there, touch your face, keep you whole, help you see my life, give me your life.
Incredible and chemical.
Before I show you where the secret is, I want to turn you into this.
I want to give you all my nothingness, I want to cover you with this.
Let me see my life, give me your life, incredible and chemical.
CHOOSE
Hear me!Remember all the times you bent our truth and crossed our lines?
All things considered, it was just our normal way of life,
But somewhere in the middle, we got caught and dragged away,
So my tribunal brings us here so I can fall today.
All you want is soulless, all you got to break us,
All I have to do is stop your fucking nonsense.
I can’t betray myself.
I stand before you as a victim as the system rots,
I couldn’t focus so I staggered when I heard the shots.
There are no labels and no rehabilitation here,
You are surrounded by the very fucking thoughts you fear.
All you want is soulless, all you got to break us,
All I have to do is stop your fucking nonsense.
I can’t betray myself.
I watch the hope I had disintegrate before my eyes,
I take a minute and reflect on all your fucking lies,
Behind the door, you have two choices, but you don’t get to choose,
You can survive or you can die; either way, you lose.
MONOLITH
Is this wrong of me? I’ve come so far so fast,I’m in the dark about a lot of things, seems so real to me.
I’ve consecrated, I wish that I could hate it.
I saw my bloody hands come clean before my eyes.
And I hear my wants and needs again, can you help me?
And I hear a different kind again, someone stop me.
And I feel the strain inside my mind, am I crazy?
And I need to shed my skin, reveal this monolith within.
Visions plague my dreams, oh God, what beast did this?
I couldn’t have, Jesus, I just don’t know what’s inside of me.
I’ve desecrated, my God, I love to hate it,
My hands are bloody again, there’s no reason why.
And I hear my wants and needs again, can you help me?
And I hear a different kind again, someone stop me.
And I feel the strain inside my mind, am I crazy?
And I need to shed my skin, reveal this monolith within.
INHALE
Come one and all and see the broken man talking to himself,He sits and waits for something better, he’ll never find it here.
The people touch his hair and pinch his cheek, he can’t even feel it.
There it goes again, he’s listening to someone.
He hears the bitter laughter and all he wants to know is
Why does any of it matter? I can’t take it anymore.
You’ve got to try the inhale that makes the exhale so much better.
He wipes his hands on anything in reach, he never feels clean.
He shakes at night because his nerve is gone, every muscle hurts.
Come one and all and see what happened, that broken man is me.
There it goes again, I can hear it louder.
It doesn’t feel good anymore, all I want to know is
Why does any of it matter? I can’t take it anymore.
You’ve got to try the inhale that makes the exhale so much better.
Now I know I disappear, I can’t find my way from out of here.
Everything is fading on me, someone tell me
Why does any of it matter? I can’t take it anymore.
You’ve got to try the inhale that makes the exhale so much better.
BOTHER
Wish I was too dead to cry, my self-affliction fades.Stones to throw at my creator, masochists to which I cater.
You don’t need to bother, I don’t need to be, I’ll keep slipping farther,
But once I hold on, I won’t let go til it bleeds.
Wish I was too dead to care, if indeed I cared at all.
Never had a voice to protest, so you fed me shit to digest.
I wish I had a reason, my flaws are open season.
For this I gave up trying, one good turn deserves my dying.
You don’t need to bother, I don’t need to be, I’ll keep slipping farther,
But once I hold on, I won’t let go til it bleeds.
Wish I’d died instead of lived, a zombie hides my face.
Shell forgotten with its memories, diaries left with cryptic entries.
And you don’t need to bother, I don’t need to be, I’ll keep slipping farther,
But once I hold on, I won’t let go til it bleeds.
You don’t need to bother, I don’t need to be, I’ll keep slipping farther,
But once I hold on, I’ll never live down my deceit.
BLUE STUDY
Somewhere between my tongue and cheek I can feel the hands on me,Pulls me in so we are face to face, I don’t want to see it.
Hold my head up, can’t avert my eyes, spots and rats on me, I don’t want to see.
Claw the ground up, get me out of this, never wanted this, never needed this.
And you left me and I left you too.
Chair is stained and I can’t stay awake, bring forth evidence to keep me sane,
I can’t keep this riddle locked inside, seven ways to keep my secrets tied.
Can’t believe this, I belong in chains, separated, it was me and something else.
Now I’m numbing, get me out of this, never wanted this, never needed this.
And you left me but then I left you, and you left me and I left you too.
Arms stretched out, giving thanks to pain, spotlight looking down, I’m ashamed,
Kneeling with my forehead to the ground, I can’t help but flinch before I’m found.
I don’t need you, can’t you see behind? Doesn’t matter now, doesn’t matter anymore.
Maybe made me get me out of this, never wanted this, never needed this.
And you left me and motherfucker then I left you, and you left me and I left you too.
Safe, I just want to be safe, don’t you want to be safe, why can’t you let me be safe?
TAKE A NUMBER
Never even knew what you meant to convey,You handed us a retrospect til you didn’t have a thing to say.
No one questions you, even someone set out to do, now it’s nothing but dead and gone.
Let’s go!
Better with a lie than the world’s ever seen,
You wanted all the recognition until you lost the means.
No one talks to you, even someone set out to do, take a number, your time has come,
Cause you’re another one, you’re another soul to feed to the man’s machine.
My excuses lay me down, my emotions make me drown, my endeavour takes blame,
At least I have a name, cause you’re another one,
You’re another soul to feed to the man’s machine.
IDLE HANDS
Stuck to the dog, pissing out both ends, I got a hundred lethal weapons that I call my friends,Ain’t a person on Earth who could take my life,
I wish they would so a man could get some sleep at night,
But my design is a mixture of descent and decay,
I see a monster in the mirror fucking every day.
Can a man ever wash his hands of blood? Perpetual déjà vu, isn’t that enough?
Peel back the layers and see what I’ve become.
Satisfied? Now I feel nothing, stay away, I swear it wasn’t me.
See if you can relish if you close both eyes, every time I make an issue of it, someone dies.
Carried out like a hit man, set in stone, don’t know why I even bother to be left alone.
In my opinion, it’s a self-serving fucked-up phase, got a picture in my wallet that I keep
In case I got to go, got to split, got to make it to a higher level than this,
But I could be wrong, what I say is wrong, what I really want to say is,
Peel back the layers and see what I’ve become.
Satisfied? Now I feel nothing, stay away, I swear it wasn’t me.
Run, it doesn’t matter, I need all the miracles that I can gather,
Run, I can’t pretend, I put myself in idle hands again.
Here’s how it ends, just a bit too soon, river-deep in all the shit I let myself get into.
Doesn’t anybody like it here? Blank looks, television drama, no fear.
Let another person fuck with your mind, I bet you become the person who you’ll fuck in time.
Man, I just stopped caring, the music is blaring,
I feel you glaring, why won’t you stop staring?
Get the fuck off of me!
TUMULT
Goddamn you!Haven’t let you in cause I’m in you, must have been a bitch, must have been a pain.
Take me off the innocent, put me in your vein, that’s improbable.
Haven’t said a word cause you’re still on, mustn’t take offence, mustn’t take a bow,
Used to be a derelict, now I have to live with it, that’s improbable.
You came back, but I know better, boy.
Trip my light fantastic, rub me in your wound, I’m not broken, I’m not plastic,
I’m no whore, used against me, use me up again, that’s improbable.
You came back, but I know better, boy.
Sometimes I think I’m crazy; other times I know I’m not.
Got no time to time to time (once again), you don’t want me, you don’t need me!
OMEGA
What a skeletal wreck of man this is, translucent flesh and feeble bones, the kind of temple where the whores and villains try to tempt the holistic domes, running rampant with free thought to free form and the free and clear, and the matters at hand are shelled out like lint at a Laundromat to sift and focus on the bigger, better now. We all have a little sin that needs venting, virtues for the rending and laws and systems and stems I’ve ripped from the branches of office. Do you know what your post entails? Do you serve a purpose or purposely serve? Wind down inside your atavistic allure the value of a summer spent and a winter earned. For the rest of us, there is always Sunday, the day of the week that reeks of rest, but all we do is catch our breath so we can wade naked into the bloody pool and place our hand on the big black book, to watch the knives zigzag between our aching fingers. A vacation is a countdown, T minus your life and counting, time to drag your tongue across the sugar cube and hope you get a taste.What the fuck is all this for? What the hell’s going on? Shut up!
I could go on and on but let’s move on, shall we? Say you’re me and I’m you and they all watch the things we do and like a smack of spite they threw me down the stairs, haven’t felt like this in years, the great magnet of malicious magnanimous refuse, let me go and punch me into the dead spout again. That’s where you go when there’s no one else around, it’s just you, and there was never anyone to begin with, now was there? Sanctimonious pretentious dastardly bastards with their thumb on the pulse and a finger on the trigger. Classified, my ass, that’s a fucking secret and you know it. Government is another way to say ‘better than you’. It’s like ice but no pick, a murder charge that won’t stick, it’s like a whole other world where you can smell the food but you can’t touch the silverware. What luck. Fascism you can vote for. Isn’t that sweet? And we’re all gonna die some day, cause that’s the American way, and I’ve drunk too much and said too little, when your gaffer taped in the middle, say a prayer, save face, get yourself together and– see what’s happening. Shut up! Fuck you!
I’m sorry, I could go on and on but it’s time to move on, so remember: you’re a wreck, an accident. Forget the freak, your just nature. Keep the gun oiled and the temple clean, shit snort and blaspheme, let the heads cool and the engine run, because in the end, everything we do is just everything we’ve done.
from the special edition of the album “Stone Sour”
RULES OF EVIDENCE
You help me survive, you’re the reason I’m alive.Speak softly, cyanide passed from your mouth into mine.
Your breathing sounds like the sickest music playing backwards in my head.
Contagions, so hellacious, you can’t find the words so you scream instead.
This life less ordinary, my righteous unsuspecting, I have a secret, you are a dichotomy.
What won’t kill me makes me, what won’t love me hates me, what won’t kill me dies.
You could help me hide, you could keep me inside, heartbroken, petrified.
What am I supposed to do if you don’t try?
Mad symmetry, senseless poetry, laying naked on my bed.
Contracted and frustrated, you won’t say a word and your eyes are dead.
This life less ordinary, my righteous unsuspecting, I have a secret, you are a dichotomy.
What won’t kill me makes me, what won’t love me hates me, what won’t kill me dies.
The whole fucking world’s against us dude, I swear to God.
THE WICKED
I only have so long to make a safe place for you, I can twist my fingers in and build another one.Look through this face and find it, let the hands of the man guide it,
When I put you through this, you’ll need me.
Suffer to be mine, I want to be cruel to be kind.
I’ll get inside your head, live so hard you’ll wish you were dead.
A touch of the wicked.
I can’t help living for you, I wish I could climb inside you,
Slip you on like a second skin and be another one.
You’ll live forever with me, you can have another soul and rape me.
When I step into this, you’ll be me.
Suffer to be mine, I want to be cruel to be kind.
I’ll get inside your head, live so hard you’ll wish you were dead.
A touch of the wicked.
You feel so tight around me, I don’t want to be the man I must be.
I raise my arms and grip my head cause I’m seeing red.
I’ll take good care of you, love, I could never ever love you enough.
When I get to use this, it’s over.
Suffer to be mine, I want to be cruel to be kind.
I’ll get inside your head, live so hard you’ll wish you were dead.
A touch of the wicked.
INSIDE THE CYNIC
I hear my poisons in the multitude, why was I damned a human deemed too rude?Somewhere between the madness and my mind, I live with lesions called the human kind.
I wander aimlessly amongst the herd, infested shadows, I am undeterred.
I give opinion cause you give no peace, they say we manifest a new disease.
My head explodes, my soul berates, erratic thoughts, they scar my face,
I won’t exist, I won’t persist.
I cast a weary gaze into the crowd, ten thousand reasons dropped into my mouth.
My theoretics can’t begin to live, so I have nothing more but life to give.
My head explodes, my soul berates, erratic thoughts, they scar my face,
I won’t exist, I won’t persist.
See the lies you’ve given me, this is not what I should be.
You say your truth isn’t mine, everything you say is a lie.
My head explodes, my soul berates, erratic thoughts, they scar my face,
I won’t exist, I won’t persist.
KILL EVERYBODY
Every day I get closer and closer to releasing this on you.Roll it in, I can snap it in half and let the other make this happen to you.
All I see is someone afraid of my eyes, it’s haunting me, you’re all abortions to me,
Fucking lying to me, no apologies, I don’t give a fuck who you think you are, go away.
Anyway, you make me sick and it doesn’t help your case.
It’s so serious I can’t stop laughing and I cannot wash my mouth of this taste.
You vow to destroy, afraid to face the facts, I don’t know how much longer I can live a lie.
I want the whole world to burn, every single thing, it wasn’t meant to force on my head.
Killing everyone, killing everything.
My eyes are dead and my veins are too, and I’m starting to believe.
My hands are shaking and I feel my smile like a rictus on a Harvard jersey.
No one’s crying anymore, I am closing the door, I am nothing but a minion in the weather.
My voice is a weapon, my face is the same, it’s time that I give you my pain. Killing everyone, killing everything.
ROAD HOGS
Born and raised in this place called life, I got a serious case of the clap.Dirty fingernails, killing and stealing, I’m a bona fide psycho and I’m ready to snap.
Make a demon seed, smoke a lot of weed, you can’t stop me, oh hell no.
Ultra greasy style, smell my shit for miles, come and get me, come on and get me, man.
Oh yeah, hell yeah, road hog.
On the highway, I am sick as shit, except the seat is really killing my ’rhoids.
Motorcycles and a fifth of the Beam, I’m a double cammy shammy with a need to destroy.
Super holy shit, lose the acid tits, you can’t stop me, oh hell no.
Bagel missed a cue, have a turkey, come and get me, come on and get me, man.
Oh yeah, hell yeah, road hog.
Lick my boots you whore, then go to the store,
We need munchies, go get me some munchies, bitch.
Oh yeah, hell yeah, road hog.
June bugs on my face, skeeters in my teeth, fuck it, oh shit.
And we’re almost done, ain’t this shit been fun?
See you later, y’all come back now, y’hear?.
Road hog, baby, chicken fried, double cheese, put everything on it.
from the album “Come What(ever) May”
30/30-150
I am a dominant gene, live as I die, never say forever cause forever’s a lie.I can see right through you, so I can ignore you, the story changes but the ending won’t bore you.
I tried to tell you but you simply obeyed, you didn’t listen so they threw you away.
Now all you do is talk, I don’t want to hear your bullshit, is this what you want?
This is where it begins and this is where it ends.
They called us a dead generation, they told us that we wouldn’t survive.
They left us alone in the maelstrom, as you can see we’re all clearly alive.
We know where you are and we’re coming, let’s see you say that shit to our face.
Thirty thirty one-fifty remembers, thirty thirty one-fifty hates.
In my own peculiar way I feel mercurial.
Before I get ahead of myself again, I know the where but I still don’t know the when.
You want to live in a one-sided world, be prepared for a whole world of hurt.
Now it’s the grand façade, I don’t want to be an angel, I just want to be God.
They called us a dead generation, they told us that we wouldn’t survive.
They left us alone in the maelstrom, as you can see we’re all clearly alive.
We know where you are and we’re coming, let’s see you say that shit to our face.
Thirty thirty one-fifty remembers, thirty thirty one-fifty hates.
I am a fucking machine fuelled by the past, a memory’s a memory until it’s a fact.
I can bury the hatchet and let some shit go, but I got too many grudges to hold.
I saw a lot of people die in the end, I never want to walk that road again,
Now I will never give up, I don’t want to have it all, I just want to have enough.
COME WHAT(EVER) MAY
Can you take away every single day that we have given to another false prophet?Can you give us all a reason not to fall before you take away another broken promise?
Show your pretty face, hide the bitter taste, you’re still the rapist of an entire nation.
You want to be the man, you got to be a man, but you are nothing but a sad insinuation.
How can we ever live this down?
Keep your fingers crossed, the truth is at a loss, big decision for an ordinary coward.
The only problem is your fucking rhetoric, we’re more in danger than before you took power.
Now it’s just a game, god, you’ll never change, you’d sell us out if you could only find a buyer.
You don’t give a shit as long as idiots are in your corner, you could set us all on fire.
How can we ever live this down?
You never wanted to be, they only wanted a parody, you want the world to be free but what the hell is free about it?
Now we’ve reached the end, just get it over with, but this is building to an adamant conclusion.
Come whatever may, there’s gonna be a day when we have figured out a possible solution.
Everything you’ve done is killing everyone, a little smile on a homicidal bastard.
You want to be a man, you got to have a plan, another failure is a guaranteed disaster.
How can we ever live this down?
You never wanted to be, they only wanted a parody, you want the world to be free, you only wanted the world.
You never wanted to be, they only wanted a parody, you want the world to be free, but what the fuck is free about it?
HELL & CONSEQUENCES
I’m not a victim til I let you take me down.I’m not a target in the sights of your mercy, I never asked for anything, I’m not asking now.
I will not be afraid.
I’ve done this on my own and I don’t care what you do to me, I won’t hand over what is mine.
I’ve done this for too long to let you take it away from me, it’s too late to stop me cause I refuse to die.
I haven’t weakened just because I’ve shown myself.
I’ve taken everything except what’s for granted, I’ll leave hypocrisy for everybody else.
I will not be afraid.
I’ve done this on my own and I don’t care what you do to me, I won’t hand over what is mine.
I’ve done this for too long to let you take it away from me, it’s too late to stop me cause I refuse to die.
I’m not a problem til you make one out of spite.
I’ll give you hell and consequences for trying, don’t want an enemy, don’t fuck with my life.
I will not be afraid.
SILLYWORLD
Freedom’s just a word today, freedom’s just a word, when someone takes your word away it’s seldom ever heard.So take a sentence full of things you’re not supposed to say, carry on, but don’t write them down or you’ll be gone.
Love is just a song today, love is just a song, when someone takes the song away you seldom sing along.
So take those lyrics serious and sing your life away, carry on, but don’t write them down or they’ll be gone.
All we ever do is talk, we like to ride but we never walk, we make it so damn easy we get bored,
Why can’t anybody see what’s good for you is good for me, I can’t take your silly world no more.
Peace is just two fingers now, peace was just a phase, when someone put it on a shirt you knew to count the days.
So take those fingers, tape them up and shove them up your ass and carry on, but don’t try it now cause peace is gone.
All we ever do is talk, we like to ride but we never walk, we make it so damn easy we get bored,
Why can’t anybody see what’s good for you is bad for me, and I can’t take your silly world no more.
We fight our instincts, we go to extremes, we fight our lives.
MADE OF SCARS
This one came from looking, this one opened twice, these two seemed as smooth as silk, flush against my eyes.This one needed stitches and this one came from rings, this one isn’t even there but I feel it more because you don’t care.
Cut right into me cause I am made of scars.
This one had it coming, this one found a vein, this one was an accident but never gave me pain.
This one was my father’s and this one you can’t see, this one had me scared to death, but I guess I should be glad I’m not dead.
Cut right into me because I am made of scars.
God, don’t you believe the hype!
And I will find a way, everything you are I will betray, I swear that I will find a way, everything you are is inside me.
This one was the first one, this one had a vice, this one here I like to rub on dark and stormy nights.
This one was the last one, I don’t remember how, but I remember blood and rain and I never saw it coming again.
Cut right into me because I am made of scars, that’s what I’m made of.
REBORN
I am walking through your streets, I am looking in your windows, I am elemental now, you’ll never even know I’m there.I am watching over you, I am living in the shadows, I am just a word to you, but I am very real and cold.
Cold to all of this, cold to how you feel, cold to all your lucid reason.
I am everything, I am anything, I am automatic, I am yesterday, I am every day, I am gonna be...
I am all there is to know, I am all that you’ve forgotten, I am enigmatic now, you never even knew my name.
I am dressed in tragedy, I am by design immortal, I am just the last one left but I am always here and old.
Old and very strong, old as all you feel, old as all the world around you.
I am everything, I am anything, I am automatic, I am yesterday, I am every day, I am gonna be reborn. (This is the start of something.)
I am just a secret now, I am just a vague illusion, I’m a lie you tell yourself that you never truly did believe.
I’m a whisper in the dark, I’m a victim and the killer, I am almost ready now, but you insist I don’t exist.
Motherfucker!
YOUR GOD
What am I supposed to do now?Reveal to me this ugly thing, I’m rusted metal by your head.
It’s getting out of hand again, nobody sees it, but I can.
You thought of everything, I bet, but did you think that I might die?
I haven’t really smiled in I don’t know how long, you know, something’s gonna give again.
I tried to fight, but did you listen? Even after you’re gone, man, I’m finished.
I could never be your god and I don’t even think I want the job anymore.
Say something, anything to me, I do believe but I have doubts.
So many reasons to hold on, conflicting interest isn’t it.
I guess I’m better off in the end, cause you were always there to blame.
I haven’t felt so bad in I don’t know how long, you know, I can’t get away again.
I tried to fight, but did you listen? Even after you’re gone, man, I’m finished.
I could never be your god and I don’t even think I want the job anymore.
What am I supposed to now? How am I supposed to live now?
All I ever did was try, but the story ends so I guess I’ll have to die, where am I supposed to go now?
Go ahead and go away.
THROUGH GLASS
I’m looking at you through the glass, don’t know how much time has passed,Oh God, it feels like forever, but no one ever tells you that forever feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head.
Cause I’m looking at you through the glass, don’t know how much time has passed,
All I know is that it feels like forever, but no one ever tells you that forever feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head.
How do you feel? That is the question, but I forget you don’t expect an easy answer.
When something like a soul becomes initialised and folded up like paper dolls and little notes, you can’t expect a bit of hope,
So while you’re outside looking in, describing what you see, remember what you’re staring at is me,
Cause I’m looking at you through the glass, don’t know how much time has passed,
All I know is that it feels like forever, but no one ever tells you that forever feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head.
How much is real? So much to question, an epidemic of the mannequins contaminating everything we thought came from the heart,
But never did right from the start, just listen to the noises, null and void instead of voices.
Before you tell yourself it’s just a different scene, remember it’s just different from what you’ve seen.
I’m looking at you through the glass, don’t know how much time has passed,
And all I know is that it feels like forever, but no one ever tells you that forever feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head.
And it’s the stars that shine for you, and it’s the stars that lie to you.
SOCIO
I remember now but I still have my doubts, I think it’s gonna be today.Everybody came but it’s just not the same, why did it have to be today?
Now my chest is tight, no I am not all right, it doesn’t have to be this way, why does it have to be this way?
I don’t know what’s wrong, it’s like I’m too far gone, it doesn’t matter anyway.
Fear is in my heart, just when I stop it starts, and I can never live this way.
Freedom in a cage, no sun and too much rage, I don’t know how much I can take.
Push it down inside, but it knows just where to hide, I know that normal is hard to fake.
Bleeding into life, it’s like a thousand knives are slowly turning me into this, why does it have to be like this?
I don’t know what’s wrong, it’s like I’m too far gone, it doesn’t matter anyway.
Fear is in my heart, just when I stop it starts, and I can never live this way.
I lost again today.
I don’t know what’s wrong, it’s like I’m too far gone, it doesn’t matter anyway.
Fear is in my heart, just when I stop it starts, and I can never live this way.
Living with a curse, sometimes it’s even worse, it slowly kills me every day.
Something I despise is gonna take my life, I guess I’ll try again today.
1ST PERSON
Why is everything so grey, is everything so strange, is everything so thrown together by mistake?Why is everything contrite, is everything a plight, is everything so insincere and out of sight?
Why does everything seem wrong, does everything look drawn, does everything seem blasted like it don’t belong?
I want to make it a way, I want to make it a waste, I want to make it a gross misadventure.
I want to make you all, I want to make you lie to me.
When did everything go bad, did everything fall flat, did everything decay and lose itself so fast?
When did everything succumb, did everything go numb, did everything lobotomise what it’s become?
When does everything come back, does everything relapse, does everything save face and find itself at last?
I want to show you the way, I want to show you the waste, I want to show you the worst misadventure.
I want to show you all, I want to show you how to die for me.
I want to give it a way, I want to give it the waste, I want to give it the worst misadventure.
I want to give it all, I’m gonna give it all, I’ll never give up, lie to me, die for me.
Now everything’s a lie, everything’s your lie, everything’s a face inside another lie.
Now everything’s a side, everything’s one side, everything depends on just which side you’re on.
CARDIFF
This fluid feels like pain, this stoic mood is all in vain; I reach into the dark, I tear this other me apart.How many years ago, how many deaths I can’t let go? My flesh is temporary, my god extraordinary.
You can’t kill my mind.
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness, I know tonight will end but I won’t give this life away again.
Sifting through this same debris, oh my father, call to me; this smoke is in my blood, this home is just no good.
Save me from my bitterness, give me up, I did my best; shock this system full of shit, mock this fucker lost in it.
You can’t kill my mind.
A man delivered can never make his way in darkness, I know tonight will end but I won’t give this life away again.
A man surrendered can never find his own forgiveness, I know my life will end but I won’t give tonight away again.
This fluid feels like pain, this ruin feels like rain, I reach into the past, my future’s fading fast.
How many years ago, how many I let go, my flesh is all I have, my face is happenstance.
This smoke is in my blood, this life is not enough.
ZZYZX RD.
I don’t know how else to put this, it’s taken me so long to do this, I’m falling asleep and I can’t see straight.My muscles feel like a mêlée, my body’s curled in a U-shape, I put on my best but I’m still afraid.
Propped up by lies with promises, saving my place as life forgets, maybe it’s time I saw the world.
I’m only here for a while but patience is not my style and I’m so tired that I got to go.
What am I supposed to hide now, what am I supposed to do, did you really think I wouldn’t see this through?
Tell me I should stick around for you, tell me I could have it all, I’m still too tired to care and I got to go.
I get to go home in one week but I’m leaving home in three weeks, they throw me a bone just to pick me dry.
I’m following suit and directions, I crawl up inside for protection, I’m told what to do and I don’t know why.
I’m over existing in limbo, I’m over the myths and placebos, I don’t really mind if I just fade away.
I’m ready to live with my family, I’m ready to die in obscurity, cause I’m so tired that I got to go.
What am I supposed to hide now, what am I suppose to do? You still don’t think I’m going see this through.
Tell me I’m a part of history, tell me I can have it all, I’m still too tired to care and I got to go.
