Otep

I speak in verses, prophecies and curses
I speak in verses, prophecies and curses
I hate my life

No miracle is coming (hate you)
It's just a hole (hate you)
Nothing's wrong with you (hate you)
Just maintain control (hate you)

Everyone's asking questions
No place is safe
I'll forfeit resurrection
To escape the pain
I hate my life
I hate my life

I hate my life
I hate my life
I hate my life
I hate my life
I hate my life

I speak in verses, prophecies and curses
This storm of thorns is growing (hate me)
There's no end in sight (hate me)
Chaos claws my jaw (hate me)
And incites a mental riot (hate me)

I'm in the mouth of madness
With this tongue of poetry
I ate the spine of Atlas
Now the world is crushing me
I hate my life
I hate my life

I hate my life
I hate my life
I hate my life
I hate my life (life)

Buried alive behind enemy lines
Surrogate child for the sins of all mankind
Hate

Buried alive behind enemy lines
(Buried alive, buried alive)
Buried alive behind enemy lines
(Buried alive, buried alive)
Buried alive behind enemy lines
(Buried alive, buried alive)
For the sins of all mankind

Dress like we do, speak like we do
Think like we do, obey

Beneath the cold sun watching you walk away
Where my terror runs in rivers of decay
I am invisible, I'm in this room for days
Teeth on every wall that never go away

I'm made of blades and flame
I'm sick and dangerous
You're still my favorite prey
'Cause I hurt the ones I love

You're so lovely when you cry
You're so perfect when you lie
You can be my crucifix
(You never saw it coming, you never knew what hit you)
Hold me up to watch me die

Can't you see?
Well, I'm invisible
(Lies, lies, lies, lies)
(Lies, lies, lies, lies)

Beneath the pagan moon, one more prey dies today
On sheets of flesh and doom, shivering in endless shade
Like criminals the stain still remains
And I promise you it never goes away

You're so lovely when you cry
You're so perfect when you lie
You can be my crucifix
(You never saw it coming, you never knew what hit you)
Hold me up to watch me die

Behold, feast your eyes as the peripherals explode
Can you see me now? Can you see me now?
The ugly will resign when the young blood
Eats the light and one day this pain could save your life

You're so lovely when you cry
You're so perfect when you lie
You can be my crucifix
(You never saw it coming, you never knew what hit you)
Hold me up to watch me die
(Never thought you see, know you're not spared)

Living in the shelter
Lying here alive
We're painting submission
Across the shadowed sky

Fire on the sides burning bright as our eyes
Lost in flight on golden molted wings
Now do you see? Now do you see?
Now do you, now do you see?

Mama, don't cry for believing his lie
It's not your fault, it's not your fault
Paid for our sins
You protected us then and saved us all

I make this vow, I promise you now
He'll never touch us again
He'll never touch us again
He'll never touch us again

He hurts me
'Cause he cares
He hurts me
And it's all my fault!

Roaches and cigarettes
A sink of hungry dishes
Flies in the afterbirth
I miss you when you're timid

Loving you
Is nothing new
It's self mutilation
I crave the pain
I'm so ashamed
But I love
The stimulation

The last time I died
The last time I died
Wasn't nearly this much fun
Welcome
Welcome

Welcome to the family
To this drug addict
Sex fanatic
Alcoholic tragedy
Welcome to the family
To this drug addict
Sex fanatic
Alcoholic fantasy

I fell down some stairs
I ran into a wall
He hurts me 'cause he cares
It's all my fault!

He likes to kill
Small animals
And blame it
On the weather
Father was Andronicus
My secret name
Was terror

Loving you
Is nothing new
It's self mutilation
I crave the pain
I'm so ashamed
But I love
The stimulation

The last time I died
The last time I died
Wasn't nearly this much fun
Welcome
Welcome

Welcome to the family
To this drug addict
Sex fanatic
Alcoholic tragedy
Welcome to the family
To this drug addict
Sex fanatic
Alcoholic fantasy

He hurts me
'Cause he cares
He hurts me
And it's all my fault

It's all my fault
It's all your fault
It's all your fault

Fuck you
You insecure
Piece of shit
Fuck you
Now look what
You made me do

Fuck you
You insecure
Piece of shit
Fuck you
Now look what
You made me do

Fuck you

If you touch us again
I will fucking kill you

I will make you pay
I will make you pay

Now you know
How it feels
Now you know
How it feels

I sold my soul
so long ago

& now I'm alone
here in the palace of sadness & madness & bone

<i>[V1.]</i>

then she said
to the ghosts in her head

I will find the edge
I will force my fingers in

I will sip from the slit
I will rip you to shreds
I will rip you to shreds

<i>[chorus]</i>

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape

<i>[V2.]</i>

& I know
the road of truth is lined

with crucified criminals
& suicides

so maybe I'll just cut my throat
maybe I'll make you smile when I choke

hybrid creature of decay
there is no possible
way you'll escape

<i>[chorus]</i>

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape

<i>[tunnel]</i>

??yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there

he wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away
I wish that man go?╈??br>
shadow man standing in my room
smearing conspiracies for me to consume

shadow man has a plan just wait & see
you'll all be sorry for fucking with me

(come out & plaaaay)

shadow man
shadow man
please go away

shadow man
shadow man
please go away
I really don't feel like playing today!

I'm not ignoring you
I'm just plotting your doom

in a world that's ready to drown
don't stop-we have you now!

<i>[chorus]</i>

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape

Lost in the hot cyclops anarchy
Possession
Invention
Blood blood
Spirits spirits
Spirits spirits
Calling calling

Where will these visions lead
How far dare I go
Where will this song take me
Into the deep unknown
Yeah
Spirits spirits
Come come

All the prophets and the gods
came prepared for theirs
So we dine on divine
of the mind impaired
Preaching werewolf prayers on
a nightly flight
It's taken all we ate in the
pale moonlight
Feel the urge of the power surge
connect us all
Bringing kingdoms under siege
with the words that I control
Got an arsenal
ganja blunts and such
Only love can set me free
from this patriotic quest
Speaking testaments in our
secret dialogue
While the drones begin to
feast on the feces of the hog
Walk in the wilderness
of the mind
Soul decides to die
and leave infinity behind
Possession, Invention
Invite discovery
Surrender to pleasures
Lost in ecstasy
Survive
Alive you are my enemy
You die for lies, slaves to misery

Down on the battle ground
Laying wasted competition
I'm collecting intellects
and exhaling solar systems
I decree mutiny
It's revolution
us against the patriarchy
The assembler of souls
full of knowledge untold
While I'm spinning webs of
wisdom prophecies unfold
Into attack mode to decipher the code
Of Babylon's terror spawn
tyranny reloads
Mental states apathy erases
Urgency of rage in its frightening
little places
Prepare for warfare
The afterbirth of knowledge is
America's nightmare
Yeah
Possession, Invention
Invite discovery
Surrender to pleasures
Lost in ecstasy
Survive
Alive you are my enemy
You die for lies, slave to misery
Sometimes I sit and ask myself
what have I become

What have I become
What have I become
What have I become
What have I become
What have I become
Something's taking over me
Something's taking over me
Something's taking over me
Something's taking over me

You paint your face
with the blood of the weak
Self sacrifice everyone you meet
Scream at demons in my face
There's voices of the
dead nurturing my pain
I survive, I'm alive
I render fever to watch you burn
Kill your leaders to help you learn
I survive, I'm alive

Ressurection is for those who don't get it right the first time

Eternal salvation suffers from inflation

Say what you need to save your soul
But don't fuck with me
I'm losin' control
I'm so tired of this, so sick of you
My tongue is battered and bruised from all these attitudes

Teach me the magic of your sacred poems
Conjuring a voice of signs and omens
Prophecies got debris
The syllables and symbols breath
And as we climb, divine
To sacrifice our wounded minds
This awkward chance to seek, insanity
I can't save you, cause I hate me

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everything you've ever done
Suffer for your freedom
Die by the law

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everything you've ever done
Suffer for your freedom
Die by the law

Say what you need to save your soul
But leave your religion at the door
Smokin' all of Christmas weed
I'm sick of these weak anarchies
You see me as a place to make a bruise
But in my reality I'm a slate of the muse
Fuck these hypocrites, and together will fight
Tyrannist swears, as quick as your knife

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everything you've ever done
Suffer for your freedom
Die by the Law

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everythnig you've ever done
Suffer for your freedom
Die by the Law

All you sinners
Blasphemers
Burn in the pit
Burn
Burn
Burn

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everything you've ever done
Suffer for your freedom
Die by the Law

The Lord is my weapon
And I see him shoot pawns
Woman is the devil
Your God is a fraud
Everyone you knew
Everythnig you've ever done
Suffer for you freedom
Die by the Law

Save me
Save me
Save me
Save me
Save me
Save me
Save me
Save me!

The enemy of the world our greatest defeat
slave warfare

Our wings are almost dry and free
absorbing violence
[pain]
Punishing pain
Poetry is the perfume of the
soul [no fear, no god, alternate stasis takes me places, the
world, enemy]
Nightmare babies, fire gods
Speaking
of dream time serpants
and walking with the elder dead
Fear me mortal [FEAR ME]
Fear me
Feed my disease

Feed my disease [the taste of fear in the seventh phase of
the disease]
and in tiny little houses
On tiny
little streets [everythings normal, everythings not ok,
it's normal]
Voices raise and [as long as you're
under my roof you will respect me]
fear is alive [as long
as you're under my roof you will respect ME]
and
laughter
He's knows tolerance [don't forget me]

She only knows lonliness [NOT YOU, NOT YOU, NOT YOU]
and in my blackness of sleep
Savages dance and scream

but only truth is suffering
Bleeding like embryos
[but only truth is suffering]
Starving with dreams [LIFE,
BLOOD]
U, single cell are commerse
Woah, what
happened to you last night?
you've given up without a
fight
and learned the words thay say receit
U killed
the flower that blossoms in the night
Smothered and
crushed
Rage gives way to a little giggle and sudden blush

and in my molecules, the vast eternity of invention [can u
smell my fever mama? can u smell my poor veins?]
Infected
with the good disease
Intellect, rebellion
Finding
the need in every single one
...of you
What's a
matter U don't like it when eye touch you? [Come here,
don't run, don't run]
Hand me babies and
nightmare gods
Eye will shed my skin [BUT EYE CAN'T
GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME]
He prefers pain to pretty
Death to daughter, to the shivering creature that lay beneath
him
Eye will not be want u want me to be
Eye will
not be want u want me to be [nothings changed, GO AWAY, GO AWAY]

People are evil and girls hate each other
OH GREAT
DEVOUR OF THE DEAD
Eye will know my demons names
Eye
will conquer them
Eye will rise [RISE]
Eye
will...fight
Why?
Coming...
Salvation...
This is my holy war
We come to u like desert warriors

Fresh from the cool dew of night, in a sea of odor, in a
tapestry of pain
Absorbing violence
Feasting on
hopelessness
Expand your mind
Expand your mind
This is our time to shine [our time to shine, our time for
justice]
and out of the ashes only the holy will rise
Sweet paper messiah [die]
Sweet paper messiah
How
eye sacrifice u, Eye sacrifice you [SAVE ME, SAVE ME]
Dear, sweet paper messiah [SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME]

My offering
My suffering [Eye speak to u on behalf
of all of mankind]
Whatever u need
What...ever u
need
Whatever u...
Whatever u need
Unite
Messiah
ME

lying naked alone
on the bathroom floor
i keep waiting?
pain, fear
no more
and i can't get his sins off me

she wants to be a messiah
without the crucifixion
she wants to fuck delilah
without samson's intervention
she wants to be a deity and rule us everyday
and punish the wars of your rich gods
and the martyrs that they slay
she wants to see galaxies
all the planets and the stars
she wants to be a fallen angel
without the swollen scars
unclean
unclean
fillthee
and i can't get his sins off me
unclean
unclean
fillthee
and i can't get his sins off me
she wants to free the kingdom
be worshipped by the earth
she wants to be the prophet
for ten times what shes worth
she wants to break free from eve
and leave them all behind
to be born again in the thrill of sin
and revive her dying mind
she wants to stand
raid the king
slaughter the guards and kill everything
burn the world and let her soul be free
light the noble of eternity
unclean
unclean
fillthee
and i can't get his sins off me
unclean
unclean
fillthee
and i can't get his sins off me
don't touch me there
oh, i know you're scared
kill the need in me
and i remain
unclean
unclean
fillthee
and i can't get his sins off me

why should i be afraid?
it's not the first time i've tasted pain
why should I be afraid?
it's not the first time i've tasted pain
unclean
and i can't get his sins off me
and i can't get his sins off me

to all u weak mcs all u hardcore wannabe'z
if u step into the ring be prepared to swing!!
WHUT??
me be the best to impress with dictation?
too far fetched? beyond your imagination?
i'll rise to the occasion launching an invasion
enterin your mental like a viral infestation
wurdz be abrasive joints eye be lacin
sacrificin mics to ignite the celebration
its just amazing, poetically we blazing
xen & otep a volatile combination
DESTROY LIKE REVELATIONS!
styles be liquid and flow like irrigation
so make the preparation
defeat is bittersweet, its all u'll be tastin
sounding battle stations my war face in place
total annihilation
your existence has been erased
its the renaissance
time to switch up and change
the path the paragraphs infiltrate your brain
time
risin from the ashes
to lead the wretched masses
back to the sufi shack defyin all the fascists
wurdz burn with passion mentally enhancin
i'm david to goliath or delilah to your samson
kickin ass like cassius
spreadin rhymes like rashes
the satellites in flight how long before it crashes
falling like avalanches crumbled and crushed
my wild womyn get to sinning
know the power of us
i'm callin your bluff is it freedom or death?
we're gettin it on in Babylon
chokin on gods breath
the infinite connects true soldiers alive
the tribe will survive when armageddon arrives
time
the revolution is coming
TAKE NO PRISONERS
the revolution is coming
COWARDS BEWARE FUCK!
my war serpents rattle when its time to battle
mental midgets
eye got a fist full of shit for u flies to feast
u lost control of your soul
cuz your minds deceased
unfulfilled satisfactions & chemical reactions
my fate there's no escape
life itself is the assassin
eye'm blastin
the worlds in ashes from the invasion
EVERY WORD'S ANNIHILATION!!
COME ON!!
time
the revolution is coming
TAKE NO PRISONERS
the revolution is coming
your suffering will free u

o'great fanged mother
i call upon thee

arise .. with vengeance
& a voice of blasphemy

[bring out your dead]
touch, taste, feel ...
NO, DON'T DO IT. STOP.

[i'm sorry, no, i can't, please, can u hear me? help me.]
that's impossible. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. STOP LISTENING!

as long as you're under my roof, you will respect me
[HELP ME, STOP THEM ... BEFORE I DO]

AS LONG AS YOU'RE UNDER MY ROOF, YOU WILL RESPECT ME!

the only truth is suffering.
The Only Truth Is Suffering.

& it's ok to hate yourself, just lay still, don't cry for help

.... every time he comes, you disappear.
NO. NO. NO.
RUN. ANYWHERE YOU CAN.
IT'S COMING. The Suffering Is HERE.

I'M SICK BUT I NEED MY DISEASE
[no one is safe, no where is safe]

I'M SORRY. It was a mistake. Someone let me out of here.
Please, let me out of here. GO AWAY, GO AWAY, GO AWAY.

[ghost child sings]

.... surrender is your only hope.

Why?
The king of lies
Is alive
Look around
Look inside
Infidel [x3]
It begins here, it ends now
The prince must pay
His head or the crown
Rob the poor, slaughter the weak
Distort the law, perfect deceit
Do I need a gas mask?
Should I get inoculated?
Will this war last?
Will we be incincerated?
False gods
Death squads
Blind
This is a catastrophe
Weapon systems activated
Puritans have invaded
This is a catastrohpe
To protect against the threat
Order must be kept [x3]
Do I need a gas mask?
Should I get inoculated?
Will this war last?
Will we be incincerated?
False gods
Death squads
Blind
The elephants march to war
Concede
Conform
Concede
Conform
Deny the big lie
My tribe
Join me
An alliance of defiance, in the warhead [x3]
An alliance of defiance
All are welcome here
Give me your tired, give me your sick, give me your indulgence and decadence [x3]
He lied, they died, keep the peasants terrified [x2]
This is a catastrophe
You must lead if they get me
On my command
Break free [x4]

(Suffer. suffer. suffer.)

You will know
I will suffer
So you won't

You will know
I will suffer
So you don't

(like a human sacrifice,
We pay the price)

& it begins
Like this
Every time

<i>[verse 1]</i>

My heart starts reacting
My soul starts collapsing
I'm dancing in fire again

I'm burning & bleeding
The parasites are breeding
It's me versus me versus them

I am whore, holy, loved, lonely
Murdering the others now and then

I am barren, fruitful, bored but rarely useful
A sinner seeking manic martyrdom

<i>[chorus]</i>

The devil may care but i don't
No masters, no gods, no laws, no soul

I'm insignificant, i'm shiny & unique
I'm a freak, i'm a fuck-up, i'm suffering

<i>[tunnel]</i>

Touch. taste. feel.

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

All my hate
All my faith
The cloak becomes sacred

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

Touch.
Taste.
Feel.

And you will see
And you will know
We will heal ...
Everything.

<i>[verse 2]</i>

My heart starts collapsing
My soul starts reacting
I'm back in the fire again

I'm burning & bleeding
The parasites are feeding
It's me versus me & all of them

I am whore, holy, loved, lonely
Murdering the others i have been

I am barren, fruitful, bored but really useful
A sinner seeking manic martyrdom

<i>[chorus]</i>

The devil may care but i don't
No masters, no gods, no laws, no soul

I'm insignificant, i'm shiny & unique
I'm a freak, i'm a fuck-up, i'm martyring

<i>[tunnel]</i>

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

All my hate
All my faith
The cloak becomes sacred

Touch.
Taste.
Feel.

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

<i>[bridge]</i>

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter ..

<i>[exodus]</i>

You will know
I will suffer
So you don't

I will suffer
So you won't

SHA NAGBA IMURRU!!
SHA NAGBA IMURRU!!
ALL NAMES, ALL FORMS!

obsessed about
money & power

obsessed about
sexual encounters

obsessed about
passion & pain

possessed like martyr
getting high off the flames

I HAVE A BULIMIC MIND!
I HAVE A SOUL THAT'S ONE OF A KIND!

I HAVE A BULIMIC MIND!
LOOK AT ME ENEMY OPEN YOUR EYES!

accept your fate
for the hate you create

i'm sick of pretending
that you're world is not ending!

(i've seen the mysteries)
ALL NAMES, ALL FORMS!

SHA NAGBA IMURRU!

I SAW THE MYSTERY!
I KNOW THE SECRET!

obsessed about
dominion & death

obsessed about
infecting the nest

obsessed about
seeking revenge

for being trapped
in this body of wounds & regret

I KNOW THE MYSTERY
I KNOW THE SECRET

I SAW THE MYSTERY
I KNOW THE SECRET

OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES!

said the serpent to the snake ...

YOU WERE SHIT WHEN I FOUND YOU!
PINPRICKS & EMPTINESS! DECEIVER!!!

YOU DOUBT ME? EAT MY WRATH!

I WILL PULL DOWN THE GATES OF ABADDON!
I WILL LET THE DEAD ROAM FREE! THEY WILL EAT THE LIVING!

AGONY! AGONY!!

OBSESSED
OPPRESSED
OBSESSED
OPPRESSED
SESPIS.

sepsisepsisepsisepsisepsissssepsissepsi
sepsisepsisepsisepsissssepsissepsisepsisepsisepsisepsissss
(smells like victory)

Shh, it's okay, it's okay
This is our
Dirty little secret

We're all alone in the city
My hands are stoned with pity
I could get by or get high with fifty, yeah
And I, I, I, don't feel pretty
Today

And there's a lady in a stable
Her daddy reads her fables
About the moon and his bride
He's in her room every night
And feeds upon a table
Of silken robes, an altar of stone
But the child is unable
To run, run, run
And flee his Tower of Babel
So blood, blood, blood
Slithers down her ankles

We're all alone in the city
My hands are stoned with pity
I could get by or get high with fifty, yeah
And I, I, I, don't feel pretty
Today

Come one, come all, witness the fall
Cry to the sky
Today we break away
Uprising, uprising, uprising
In the house of secrets
What happens here stays here, say nothing disappear
What happens here stays here, say nothing disappear
Uprising, what happens here stays here, uprising, say nothing disappear
Uprising, uprising

Locked away
In the chamber of hysterics
Here in the house of secrets
In the house of secrets
I will tell you of loneliness
Shhhhh

[intro/gutter]

i once,
dreamed of a world ...

without consequences,
without reminders ...
of this
brutal,
gutter

i am collapsed in.

once i dreamed,
but then ... i ... woke ... up.

...open wide, look inside
at my autopsy

i feel like a woman
i feel like i care
i feel like i shouldn't
i feel like a child of despair

i feel like it's over
i feel like it's coming after me
i feel like it's closer
i feel like this is all i'll ever be

i feel like a failure
i feel like a hungry parasite
i feel like a razor
i feel like a prayer lost in flight

i feel like ...
i'm hopeless

i'm afraid i'm a slave
i'm weak & average

i feel like a hammer
i feel like a nail
i feel like i'm guilty
i feel like the wrist that it impales

i feel like a butcher
i feel like i'm being deceived
i feel like a beautiful loser
i feel like all you sheep are laughing AT ME!!

OPEN WIDE
LOOK INSIDE
AT MY AUTOPSY.

look inside open wide
look inside open wide

i feel i'm a complete waste of time
i feel i'm transparent
i feel like i can't escape my mind.

(1)

i spent my whole life
in love with despair

kept my lungs full
with the breath of their
mute atmosphere

... i became what i hate.

and thus shall i remain
to give birth to a mighty assassin
armed with a weapon of words

to defy the lies
to never compromise

no.
today, my name .... is pain.

(2)

i stood
beyond the world

whispering secret syllables
in the eyeless dark

dancing wildly
round and round on the rotting ground

surrounded by the dead dusts of Hell ...

this is how i delete myself
& this is how i corrupt everyone else

obey
obey
betray
betray

you are not unique.
you do not need to think.
take it, take it!

i will,
i will ... i will.

you succumb, so nicely.

(like an insect staring back, like a dying dove)
my love ..... (no) ..... my love.

(song)

so here we are again
the sheets are stained & bloodied
the animals scratch at my skin

here we are again
my face is scraped & bloodied
i've nothing left to give

- i wasn't there,
- i'm not involved,
- i'm innocent,
- it's not my fault.

- i wasn't there,
- i'm not involved,
- i'm innocent,
- it's not my fault.

.. here in the suicide trees.
.. here in the suicide trees.

no. bloody, bloody, bloody, MURDER!
AMONG THE EXCREMENT OF MY SINS!!
it's not happening, it can't be happening, it's not happening.

so here we are again
in secret ceremonies
changing shape, amen.

here we are again
pretending not to notice
the illness sneaking in.

- i wasn't there,
- i'm not involved,
- i'm innocent,
- it's not my fault.

- i wasn't there,
- i'm not involved,
- i'm innocent,
- it's not my fault.

.. here in the suicide trees.
.. here in the suicide trees.

toil & labor
hate your neighbor
faith in favor
obey!

toil & labor
hate your neighbor
faith in favor
obey!

OBEY.
OBEY.

HERE, I DO AS I PLEASE!
HERE IN THE SUICIDE TREES!

HERE, I DO AS I PLEASE!
HERE IN THE SUICIDE TREES!!

OBEY!!

HATE YOUR NEIGHBORS!
HATE YOUR NEIGHBORS!!

(the animals scratch at my skin)
it's not happening, it's not happening.

MY PAIN, MY PRIDE
THESE SCARS ARE MINE

MY PAIN, MY PRIDE
THESE SCARS ARE MINE

i will tell you a story,
that's never been told

i will tell you a secret,
5 lifetimes old ...

my life has been a prison,
a labyrinth built beneath the mountain of Tragedy.

i'm a stain on the cloth.
i'm just an after-thought.

but i
would die
for this ....

but through the veins of decay
i'll remain to betray

to live like Caesar.
to die like Jesus.

to build my own religion,
no gods, no laws

to celebrate pain
forsaken & ashamed

to watch them all,
crawl beneath us ...

on this bed of nails & regret
dying of fevers, betrayal, & sweat

I CRY ...

(chorus)

my organs are rotting,
my enemies are plotting ...

I AM MADE OF PAGES
PARAGRAPHS & INSPIRATIONS
PAPER GIRL, BURN THE WORLD,
I PASS THE FLAME TO YOU!!

MURDER
MAYHEM
HURT HER
HATE HIM

MURDER
MAYHEM
HURT HER
HATE HIM

MURDER MAYHEM
HURT HER HATE HIM

MURDER
MAYHEM
FUCK HER
SLAY THEM!!

(verse)

my pain, my pride
these scars are mine

my pain .....

MY MISERY HAS BEEN FORMULATED
INTO AN EQUATION OF NIEN

MY SANITY WROTE
A SUICIDE NOTE
BUT ONE OF US IS ILLITERATE
AND THE OTHER ... IS BLIND

MY 1st ACT OF TREASON
WAS PICKING UP A PEN

MY 1st ACT OF LOVE
WAS FINDING MYSELF AGAIN

THE HARDEST THING TO DO
WAS STANDING UP TO YOU

NOW I'M OFF MY KNEES
NOW YOU'RE BEGGING ME "PLEASE"

I'M THE WOUND & THE WEAPON
THE FRACTURE & THE FIST

(chorus)

my organs are rotting,
my enemies are plotting ...

I AM MADE OF PAGES
PARAGRAPHS & INSPIRATIONS
PAPER GIRL, BURN THE WORLD,
I PASS THE FLAME TO YOU!!

MURDER
MAYHEM
HURT HER
HATE HIM

MURDER
MAYHEM
HURT HER
HATE HIM

MURDER MAYHEM
HURT HER HATE HIM

MURDER
MAYHEM
FUCK HER
SLAY THEM!!

(outro)

THAT STABBING IN YOUR HEART,
THAT BLACK HOLE IN YOUR SOUL,
SLOWLY RIPPING YOU APART .... THAT'S ME!!!

THAT'S ME!!!

SO LET IT BE WRITTEN,
SO LET IT BE DONE!

THE BRIGHTER THEY SHINE,
THE DARKER WE BECOME!!

VAE VICTUS!
ABOMINATION!

No
No
No
Into the defect
The reason
The source
Of all this
Misery
And extract it
Forever

What heals me kills me

I'm a natural assassin
A massacre in action
I've never known remorse
Or felt any compassion
This is my drug of choice
The reason demons rejoice
My rage remains a beast untamed

I bet you'll remember me now

Glutton
I am heartbreak and depression
Regret without redemption
A wounded animal
Afraid of my reflection
I am an epidemic
This is a crime of passion
The willing weak deserve defeat
The penance will be savage

I bet you'll remember me now
I bet you'll remember me now

Bi-polar
Self-abortion
Mind fuck
Can't escape
These chains
Of shame
I'm stuck
Swollen in the mud
Barely
Standing still
Hungry for the hunt
And the thrill
Of the kill

Come on
I've always been a shadow
Content with my disease
You'll never see it coming
'Cause you never notice me
Unload
Words are the remedy
Words are the remedy

What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
What heals me kills me
The plague rages on

I've built myself out of ash and agony
I am ready
I
Am
I
I am my own creation, I am, self-made
I am my own creation, I am, self-made
I am my own creation, I am, self-made
Destroyers
I am I
A bone heals
A bruise fades
But art is forever