and you cannot see beneath the surface
can't quite reach right past this skin
if you could penetrate this darkest veil
i’ve a surprise for you within
sometimes i feel it’d be better off without me
or maybe still with me there but without you
then again maybe i was never here to start with
maybe it was only you who pretended to be
don’t make any promises that you can’t break
i leave my life right here for you to take
my mind’s real but this soul is a fake
so i only destroy what i cannot remake
i just want to break anything that gets in my way
i’m only an object in your cruel little game
there's so many words but no reason to say them
i'm nailed to the bottom, there's nowhere to go from here
wish i could see, but i can’t force open these eyes
i’m drowning again, but even i can’t save myself
all beauty is ugliness, so please shed this skin for me
unstable, as i always am, fragile, i’ll always be
how can i ever be myself when i don’t know who i am?
how can i give it all back if there’s nothing in my hand?
where am i going when the path clears out before me?
behind all of this i’m just like you, but you refuse to see
so prone to fall to pieces before you
i give you permission to witness my decline
let the darkness have its way with me
may they know just where to take me