Try to go my own way
But I don't hurt
Try to tell you my way
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I don't want to give myself away
I can never leave this shell I made
Getting hard to breathe in cellophane
Ending all I see it's cell decay
Devil on his knees there's hell to pay
When I'm lost in trees I'm well aware
They're never not in season evergreen, see
Better lost at sea than Tetracaine
My fears will never alter me to grow complacent
Hearing all the hollow speech from ghosts that say it
Tears fall from a martyr that's a hopeless place
Mirror made of water that's an oceanscape, there's no escape
Is anybody out there living in the downward?
City on the outskirts pity for the outbursts
Skin me from the inside divvying the cloudbursts
Drifting in the midnights admitting I'm an outcast
Sinning 'til I count lashes self-flagellate
'Til the doubts pass licking on the ground glass
Wilting rose that's emitting from the brown grass
Fills my soul with epiphanies that outlast
Try to go my own way
But I don't hurt
Try to tell you my way
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I've been pulled out to sea to die
Lull me to sleep before
Skull seems to shrink in size
Cold fingers reach to sky
Snow lingers freezing nights
Soul speaks like meteor
Hope extinguished beaming eyes
Woe is me still beacon-like
My body smells like it's petrichor
My coffin's got all the best decor
Nonchalant when I exit form
While the non-savants play the Devil's chord
I stalked you when I ventured forth
You stalked me like a vegetable
Let's talk until we smell the posey
Stock it in my ventricles
They skip their stones 'til it's chipping bones
I still sit alone with the rigmarole
Bitter tones kissed my throat, razorblades
Misanthrope fades away in Interzone
I'm still hanging by a twisted rope
I stayed alive I'm immortal
While the distant crows sing my written prose
I was written off but never pigeonholed
Try to go my own way
But I don't hurt
Try to tell you my way
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
Purgatory bound my feet in limbo
Tearing off their skin with screams like Sindel
Air it out again it seems so simple
Parables I left still speak in riddles
Had to ante up no sleep like vigil
Cactus on my thumbs it feels like thistles
Adamantium now seems like tin foil
Add ammonium I breathe in thick oil
People still belie I need to tiptoe
Leaving me to die completes the mythos
Bleakness in my mind I keep in temple
Even when I lie keep peace like Shinto
Beats my heart provides the key and tempo
Demons in my mind that means they're kinfolk
Secrets in their eyes I peek in windows
Beat 'em when they try they'll bleed like Kimbo
Daddy used to fight he'd teach me Kenpo
Manic in the night fight dreams like Klitschko
Had to use the light to read through grimoires
Atoms that divide in sync like pitfalls
Venom that I spew secretes from lymph nodes
When I let 'em near the leeches stick close
Set 'em on a pier they'll sleep with minnows
Camera obscura I see through pinholes
Try to go my own way
But I don't hurt
Try to tell you my way
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
I can't get you to see that
But I don't hurt
Patience, graceless, all of the same mistakes
Everybody wants to know their fate
Ageless, weightless, counting the clock for days
Everyone wants to know the end
I've got the only way out, the only way in
Take it to the grave I'll take it all the way, way back
All the while now, all the time now, time to take it
Time to take it way way back
