I don't know why I do this

I don't know why I hide

I don't know why the world outside

Makes me so terrified

Don't know when I became this

A mask trapped in the void

I don't know when to stop

I make myself so paranoid

It's all in vain

I've gone insane

No ifs or maybes

The bitch is crazy

You made the bed

So lie in it

Sleeping dogs

wake up with fleas

And darling,

you laid next to me

Read the Bible

Sued for libel

Notes on paper

Love in vapor

Everything I ever wanted

Somehow always left me haunted

Now that you're tied to my cable

Suicide

So damn unstable

I don't know why I do this

I don't know why I cried

I don't know why here at your side

I feel like I have died

Don't know when I became this

A shelved doll, just a toy

I don't know when to stop

I make myself so paranoid

It's all in vain

I've gone insane

No ifs or maybes

The bitch is crazy

You made the bed

So lie in it

Sleeping dogs

wake up with fleas

And darling,

you laid next to me

I don't know why I do this

I don't know why I hide

I don't know why the world outside

Makes me so terrified

Don't know when I became this

A mask trapped in the void

I don't know when to stop

I make myself so paranoid

It's all in vain

I've gone insane

No ifs or maybes

The bitch is crazy

You made the bed

So lie in it

Sleeping dogs

wake up with fleas

And darling,

you laid next to me

Read the Bible

Sued for libel

Notes on paper

Love in vapor

Everything I ever wanted

Somehow always left me haunted

Now that you're tied to my cable

Suicide

So damn unstable

I don't know why I do this

I don't know why I cried

I don't know why here at your side

I feel like I have died

Don't know when I became this

A shelved doll, just a toy

I don't know when to stop

I make myself so paranoid

It's all in vain

I've gone insane

No ifs or maybes

The bitch is crazy

You made the bed

So lie in it

Sleeping dogs

wake up with fleas

And darling,

you laid next to me

$100 t-shirt

With a band you've never heard

Shelf packed full with vinyls

Google told you which were good

Book shelf lined with classics

Pretty spines that no one's touched

A house of vintage furniture

Like a show room all done up

You'll never get it right

But, hey, at least you caught the vibe

One day these days of your life

Will be another bad fad

For them to imbibe

And you'll start to wonder why

They pick apart your life

While you're still alive

And you'll start to feel

Like you might have died

But, hey, at least they caught the vibe.

Right?

Take the poloroid picture

When your phone has better res

Watch pretentious art films

When you'd rather watch your feed instead

Go to all the biggest concerts

Watch the image through your screen

Your own two eyes won't realize

How they're missing everything

And still, you'll never get it right

But, hey, at least you caught the vibe

One day these days of your life

Will be another bad fad

For them to imbibe

And you'll start to wonder why

They pick apart your life

While you're still alive

And you'll start to feel

Like you might have died

But, hey, at least they caught the vibe.

Right?

One day your youth will be

Someone's costume jewelery

And life will start to feel

Like some long play

And some dumb girl who's half your age

Will tell you why the past's so great

Like you weren't fucking there

Back in those days

And you'll tell her

You'll never get it right

But, hey, at least you caught the vibe

One day these days of your life

Will be another bad fad

For them to imbibe

And you'll start to wonder why

They pick apart your life

While you're still alive

And you'll start to feel

Like you might have died

But, hey, at least they caught the vibe.

Right?

Wake up falling into stardust

Explosions in the sky

Firecracker burned to ash

The greatest legends die

Burn bright. Fade to night.

Fall into the black.

Up here there's no atmosphere

I'm never coming back

They're burning Rome

So play along

To the violin's sweet song

Cast the call for liberty

Then line up for the Guillotine

Back to where

We're all unsure

We pick the poison

Loathe the cure

My God, what are we living for?

Machinery rot to the core

Bad bad apples

Toss the batch

Throw out the draft

And start from scratch.

There's nothing left here to dissect.

Crucify the architect.

God will save us

From humdrum

Is that him at the podium?

Why's he got a loaded gun?

Fire and ice, a world undone.

Back to where

We're sheep in line

Biting tongues and biding time.

Just following

The leader blind

Into slaughter for his crime

Bad bad shepherd

Getting caught

He lost the flock

And lost the plot.

It leaves little room for introspect

So crucify the architect

There's nothing left here to protect

So crucify the architect.

Do you think Frankenstein regret it

The mess that he invented?

Or was the curiosity worth

All of the monstrosity?

I wonder if he desired

To be remembered and admired.

They'd talk for years about

What he could build with just two hands.

He wanted to be greater

But some hundred odd years later

The monster's myth.

But there's no mention of the man.

Just his name misrepresented

Was that always the intention?

To become one with the monster

you create?

Was it his honest reflection

Wrapped in skin and bone?

Some lesson

Just to punish a cold world

He'd grown to hate?

Move on. Move on

The past is dead and gone.

They lied in song

We can't dream on.

Beating broken hearts

Bleeding crimson and clover

I think it's safe to say

That the dream is long over

Teens without a scene

The tragedy. They won't know the

Magic in a moment

When the music meets the soul

The empty corporate salesmen

Turned the people into shells

They couldn't push a product

So they had them sell themselves

No more ads on tv shows

But play everywhere else

We're living in a simulation

Or maybe this is hell.

Had to disconnect

Just to find a connection

Unaffected

Youth infection

Mourn the past

Then carry forward

Time moves on

It won't wait for you

Left behind

The last orator

To tell the story

Of before you

Castles are crumbling

This is no movie scene

Living a fantasy

She’s living a fantasy

The world will spin madly on

As she gets lost in a song

Of all that she’s meant to have done

All she was meant to have done

Picture the portrait

And what do you see

The fragments have shattered

These pieces of me

Held all together

With the thinnest of strings

But the girl’s come undone

Beautiful lies

That sound nice in my head

But fairytales fail

And the hero is dead

An emptied out shell

Masquerades in her stead

And the girl’s come undone

Lost in the memory

Of who she used to be

Or who she never was

Or who she never was

Paints herself into prose

The greatest of all heroes

That’s all she ever does

That’s all she ever does

Girl comes undone

Girl comes undone

She has no one

Left with no one

Holding the gun

Picked her poison

Left with no one

Girl comes undone

Circles, Cycles

I’ll never break the chain

I have this habit

That’s never gonna break

I want you, haunt you

Burn you at the stake

Just a toy

To destroy

I'll beat you at your game

Love, hate

Choice, fate

Read the tarot cards

Pull death

Lose breath

Then shatter into shards

Of what was

Of us

A bullet in the heart

Bleed out

Bleed out

Tear yourself apart

Love to hate you

Revel in the pain

Build you break you

A toxin to your brain

Picked your poison

It’s driving you insane

But you’re for torture

Darling, I’m the same

Bleed red

Drop dead

be forever mine

chosen roses

thorn prick on a vine

lovely

crime spree

Bonnie to your Clyde

Precious

Meth head

Twisted valentine

Seedy treaties

I had to turn you in

Your time, my crime

Punished for my sin

You’re free, find me

Back around again

Carousel from hell

That never seems to end

Ropes and ribbons

Tie us in a bow

Sins unforgiven

Notch on a bedpost

Blackened bruises

Remind me of your ghost

I brave to crave you

The one I love the most

Holding on to your letters

Signed them all it gets better

Armchair therapy

To tell me how I feel

It’s great that you’re out there thriving

But I’m barely just surviving

So don’t you dare tell me

Which parts of us were real

Why did you keep me like a secret?

You knew you’d never keep it

Knew you’d never stay

So why’d you let me hold you like a promise?

You could’ve just been honest

Could’ve walked away

Now I’m in pieces

I grieve us

Invested

You’re out west

Forgetting me

Regretting me

Losing my memory

While I’m frozen

In rose colored

Glasses

I’m trapped in

The past

And I just can’t see

What you did to me

You’re my villain

So don’t come white knight

On horseback

Trying to fight

To win me back

It’s horseshit

You don’t mean it

You're fake

Just don’t want me to

Hate you now

But I hate you now

Why did you keep me like a secret?

You knew you’d never keep it

Knew you’d never stay

So why’d you let me hold you like a promise?

You could’ve just been honest

Could’ve walked away

Why did you keep me like some treasure?

When you knew I’d never measure

Up to your precious dreams

The worst part is I never would have blamed you

If one day it came to

The choice of them or me