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watching all the insects march along
seem to know just right where they belong
smears of face reflecting in the chrome
hiding in the crowd i'm all alone
no one's heard a single word i've said
they don't sound as good outside my head
it looks as though the past is here to stay
i've become a million miles away
why do you get all the love in the world?
all the jagged edges disappear
colors all look brighter when you're near
all the stars afire in the sky
sometimes i get so lonly i could
why do you get all the love in the world?
why am i always watching from the outside?
on the other side of the glass
behind glass
always watching everyone separate
watching always
this is getting deeper as time goes by
the water's getting colder
here i am surrounded by people but still all alone
i am always alone
even with myself imprisoned in my head
and there doesn't seem to be any way to get out
and i am so fucking sick of here
wish i was there
right beside is still a million miles away
behind these bars in a rut
anyplace else will do
hello?
didn't think so
broadcasting
only static coming in
no one can hear me when i'm in here
i tried to sneak myself through i tried to get to the other side
i tried to patch up the cracks and the holes that i have to hide
for a little bit of time even made it will work okay
just long enough to really make it hurt
when they figured me out and it all just rotted away
don't you fucking know what you are?
go on get back to where you belong
you better take a good look cause i'm full of shit
with every bit in my heart i have tried to believe in it
you can dress it all up you can try to pretend
but you can't change anything
you can't change anything in th end
don't you fucking know what you are?
go on get back to where you belong
remember where you came from remember what you are
you are not one of them you belong with us
you're only fooling yourself
go on get back to where you belong
you are not one of them you belong with us
you're only fooling yourself
come back where you belong
back to nowhere
back to nothing
back to that lonely place inside your head
come back where you belong
you're so fucking stupid and pathetic
look what you're trying to do
we will never let you go
that was a lie you must have wanted to believe
you didn't really believe that did you?
well it runs too deep
it runs too deep my friend
better start to look at things through different eye
don't you fucking know what you are?
go on
get back
get back
get back to where you belong
i pick things up
i am a collector
and things, well things they tend to accumulate
i have this net
it drags behind me
it picks up feelings for me to feed upon
there are times plenty of times i wish i could let it go
but they start to breathe
and they start to grow inside me
there are times plenty of times i wish i could let it go
but they start to make me think
things i don't want to know
i'm trying to fit it all inside
i'm trying to open my mouth wide
i'm trying not to choke and
swallow it all swallow it all swallow it all swallow it all
i am the plague
i am the swarm
all your hurt sticks on me
and i keep it warm
they make me stay
they won't let me leave
there are so god damned many of them
it gets hard to breath
i'm trying to fit it all inside
i'm trying to open my mouth wide
i'm trying not to choke inside
i am a good boy and i will
swallow it all swallow it all swallow it all swallow it all
every last one
every last one
every last one
every last one
are you listening?
yes i am building something bigger than the world
something terrible
with all of this
you're keeping in step in the line
got your chin held high and you feel just fine
because you do what you're told
but inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold
just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?
what if this whole crusade's a charade
and behind it all there's a price to be paid
for the blood
on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine
just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?
so naive
to keep holding on to what I want to believe
and i can see
but i keep holding on and on and on and on
will you bite the hand that feeds you
or will you stay down on your knees?
the more that we take
the paler we get
i can't remember what it is
we try to forget
the tile on the floor
so cold it can sting
in your eyes is a place worth remembering
for you to go and take this to smash it apart
i've gone all this fucking way
to wind up to wind up
back at the start
hey the closer we think we are
well it only got us so far
now you got anything left to show?
no, no, i didn't think so
hey the sooner we realize
we cover ourselves with lies
but underneath we're not so tough
and love is not enough
it hides in the dark
like a withering vein
we didn't give it a mouth
so it cannot complain
it never really had a chance
we'd never really made it through
and to think i believed
i believed i could get better with you
hey the closer we think we are
well it only got us so far
now you got anything left to show?
no, no, I didn't think so
hey, the sooner we realize
we cover ourselves with lies
but underneath we're not so tough
and love is not enough
left for dead and all used up
i believe i can see the future
because i repeat the same routine
i think i used to have a purpose
and then again that might have been a dream
i think i used to have a voice
now i never make a sound
i just do what i've been told
i really don't want them to come around
oh no
everyday is exactly the same
everyday is exactly the same
there is no love here and there is no pain
everyday is exactly the same
i can feel their eyes are watching
in case i lose myself again
sometimes i think i'm happy here
sometimes i still pretend
i can't remember how this all got started
but i can tell you - exactly - how it will end
everyday is exactly the same
everyday is exactly the same
there is no love here and there is no pain
everyday is exactly the same
i'm writing on a little piece of paper
i'm hoping someday you might find
i'll hide it behind something
they won't look behind
i am still inside here
a little bit comes bleeding through
i wish this could have been any other way
i just don't know what else i can do
everyday is exactly the same
and i've rehearsed my lines
and i know what's coming next
she comes along
she gets inside
she makes you better than anything you've tried
it's in her kiss
the blackest sea
it runs deeper than you dare to dream it could be
with teeth
she's holding on
with teeth
wave goodbye to what you were
the rules have changed
the lines begin to blur
she makes you so hard
it comes on strong
you've finally found the place where you belong
with teeth
i can not go through this again
with teeth
she is the greatest lie of all
she will not let you go
keeps holding on
this time i'm not coming back
i'm becoming less defined as days go by
fading away
(you might say)
i'm losing focus
kind of drifting into the abstract
in terms of how i see myself
sometimes i think i can see right through myself
less concerned about fitting in to the world
your world that is
because it doesn't really matter anymore
none of this
really matters anymore
yes i am alone
but then again i always was
as far back as i can tell
i think maybe it's because
because you were never real to begin with
i just made you up to hurt myself
and it worked
yes it did
there is no you
there is only me
there is no fucking you
there is only me
only
[pt.2]
well the tiniest little dot caught my eye
and it turned out to be a scab
and i had this funny feeling
like i just knew it's something bad
i just couldn't leave alone
and i kept picking at that scab
like it was a doorway trying to seal itself shut
but i climbed through
and now i'm somewhere i am not supposed to be
and i can see things i know i really shouldn't see
now i know why and now i know why
things aren't as pretty on the inside
there is no fucking you
there is only me
only
is this really all there is?
is this really all there is?
getting a little erratic here
and i don't know who to trust
i guess they got a way of reading my mind
i guess i got adjust
i got my arms that flip flop flip flop flip
i got my head on a spring
well i thought i got you on my side
i haven't got fucking anything
i'm just a face in the crowd
nothing to worry about
not even trying to stand out
i'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller
and i have nothing to say
it's been taken away
i just behave and obey
i'm afraid i am starting to fade away
can kind of see out the cracks
when i press up to the wall
i'm not looking to stand up real high
i'd be happy to crawl
i think i'm losing my grip
but i can still make a fist
you know i still got my one good arm
that i can beat
i can beat myself up with
i'm just a face in the crowd
nothing to worry about
not even trying to stand out
i'm getting smaller and smaller and smaller
and i have nothing to say
it's all been taken away
i just behave and obey
i'm afraid i am starting to fade away
hey and for what it is worth
i really used to believe
that maybe there's some great thing
that we could achieve
and now i can't tell the difference
or know what to feel
between what i've been trying so hard to see
and what appears to be real
my world is getting smaller every day
hey hey hey hey
and that's ok
sunspots cast a glare in my eyes
sometimes i forget i'm alive
i feel it coming and i've got to get out of it's way
i hear it calling and i come cause i can't disobey
i should not listen and i shouldn't believe
but i do
yes i do
she turns me on
she makes it real
i have to apologize
for the way i feel
my life it seems has teken a turn
why in the name of god
would i ever want to return?
peel off our skin we're gonna burn what we were to the ground
fuck in the fire and we'll spread all the ashes around
want to kill away the rest of what's left
and i do
yes i do
she turns me on
she makes it real
i have to apologize
for the way i feel
and nothing can stop me now
and there is nothing to fear
and everything i'd ever want
is inside here
inside here
now i'm just staring to the sun
and i see everything i've done
i think i could have been someone
and i can't stop what has begun
now everything is said and done
and there is no place left to run
i think i used to be someone
now i'm just staring to the sun
there are things that i said i would never do
there are fears that i cannot believe have come true
for my soul is too sick and too little and too late
and my self i have grown too weary to hate
the more i stay in here
the more it's not so clear
the more i stay in here
the more i desappear
as far as i have gone
i knew what side i'm on
now i'm not so sure
the line begins to blur
is there somebody on top of me?
i don't know, i don't know
isn't anybody stopping me?
i don't know, i don't know
well i'm trying to hold my breath
just how far down can i go?
i don't know, i don't know, i don't know
as i lie here and stare
the fabric starts to tear
it's far beyond repair
and i don't really care
as far as i have gone
i knew what side i'm on
now i'm not so sure
the line begins to blur
i am all alone this time around
sometimes on the sides i hear a sound
places parallel i know it's you
feel the little pieces bleeding through
this goes on and on and on
now that i've decided no to stay
i can feel me start to fade away
everything is back where it belongs
i will be beside you before long
this goes on and on and on
see the animal in his cage that you built
are you sure what side you're on?
better not look him too closely in the eye
are you sure what side of the glass you are on?
see the safety of the life you have built
everything where it belongs
feel the hollowness inside of your heart
and it's all right where it belongs
what if all the world's inside of your head
just creations of your own?
your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
and you're really all alone?
you can live in this illusion
you can choose to believe
you keep looking but you can't find the woods
while you're hiding in the trees
what if everything around you isn't quite as it seems
what if all the world you used to know is an eleborate dream?
and if you look at your reflection, is that all you want it to be?
what if you could look right through the cracks
would you find yourself -
find yourself afraid to see?