Living in the shadows Of the ruins you left behind Picking up the pieces Of a broken mind Ripped down every time I think I've found my feet Wish it was easy for me to just pack and leave I try to stand up Can't control the heat Why do I keep coming back for more? Fallen down and out through a trapdoor Cold to the bone I'm done I'm paralyzed but I know I have to run To save my soul, I gotta bust out Stuck in this hole, no light bright enough to reach down It's like I'm chewing barbed wire To get the perfect smile The taste of my blood Is bittersweet but I'm hooked It's like I'm chewing barbed wire To get the perfect smile The taste of my blood Is bittersweet and I'm hooked Burning image in my eyes No remorse, no charge, no time for your crime How do you walk free? Everybody is blind Too hard to act like things ain't fine Too comfortable up on the fence Sitting back in apathy at my own expense No neutral, you can only oppose Or choose to enable the pain to grow It's like I'm chewing barbed wire To get the perfect smile The taste of my blood Is bittersweet but I'm hooked It's like I'm chewing barbed wire To get the perfect smile The taste of my blood Is bittersweet but I'm hooked What would I be without you? You pick me up when I feel blue Who's using who? Do you need me more than I need you? Now I know the truth And I'm black and I'm bruised I see ulterior motives control your moves I think I'm better off alone Far away from you, I need to get in my zone It's a future I seek Time to make a change before it's out of my reach