Deep inside a house of mirrors Falsehoods drawing near Through the blur and haze of all our days It's only seeming so unclear Forgive my disposition Just a you in true fruition I remember dimming the streetlight I know every night Oh, each foe that we've bested God, each useless fight All for naught All such pointless manifesting Quite the iconography You've garnered on your journey Know such iconography Was never yours exclusively I Know your venture's mine Bore in your fear and in our minds Or in the trеnches of our kind I lurked in eigеngrau and pined For when I taste your praise divine Out pouring like wine! Your praise Remains The blood inside my veins So take That stake Stab it through And show me your way! If I'm the me I truly ought to be Then undeniably, it's clearly Plain to see I was never free From thoughts of jealousy Diminished vanity And all the other thoughts that I couldn't concede Forever free God, hear me Who reflects who? Why can't I stack up to you? And why are the skies not the shade of blue I've grown acquainted to? You are something greater For when it all turns to dust Just as everything must We can cut through the crowds, hereby saying Sup, bro Can't you get enough, yo? Hey, check out my dope flow Can't live up to yours, though That's apparent You blow Not even a tough foe I don't mean to hit low (I won't hit low) Echoing an ego So transparent! So, is this the way you fought them? Tell me, is this how you brought them To their knees with melodies? Oh, such a feeble way you taught them How strange Spite of this form change No matter what I say I can't see your way Doesn't matter! (Ohh) Shatter my false perspective Shattered spectives It won't change my true objective My objective View our form, how you reject it Ooh No point trying to correct it Ooh Can't accept your complexion Your complexion Best I take a new direction Next direction Unlike those who try to hurt you Ooh I'm a beast of my own virtue! Ooh Some would say that we were weaker Some see more! Just a little, feeble glimpse of what's in store At its core, you're No longer the you That you're accustomed to Now I can see that it's true By all the actions you do That disheartening smile It's strewn apart and defiled It's vile, isn't it? Feel how that ego's drifting Out to sea, where tides are shifting Piercing through the heavens' prism Shimmering a form now risen Spreading out our torn wings Sounding for the fool's king Made our marks on this plane Made the silence fear our name Can't even dare complain, 'cause I know We'd do anything to cling onto our reign Shared our shame I know we're just the same In that way Yet I can't see the line drawn in the sand What I fail to understand's Every step I take, I'm damned With the pow'r, yet here we stand 'Twixt the lion and the lamb Says the liar of the land Every reason that I ran's Every reason that I am The scar on the mountain of my marks Saved the face, still, it drilled into my heart It all just happened so fast Au revoir to the ending never built to last So hold on tight, for there's no fighting the past Now I won't forget, till the flame That I cast is set ablaze! Every moment that has brought us to this I need the praise Help me carry on, for my own remiss To count my days I pray Tell me why can't you just understand that I care? The world spins on, and it spins to despair But you still know I'll be there It's all been heard before The battle's been turned to a war And for more The tears just cloud the things That I've been fighting for Our memory Break the reverie All, just for nothing at all Will I still be here standing tall As I watch myself fall Trying to answer your call? Face the final curtain I've got a path to tread I'll stay determined Better being burdened Better looking back But of one thing I am certain I'll make You say How proud You are of me So, stay awake Just long enough to see My way! (How long will it take) (To feel my will break?) (Forgive thy mistakes) (We'll start anew!) My way (You know that I'm here) (Present in this fear) (My love, it's so clear) (So stay!) Why, look at us, we're yin and yang here Strung together You wanted true reflection Thus you shall reflect forever You hear those pesky demons? Keep them inside And as they try to break out Make them give up, 'cause I've already tried Know they all lied Now I must confide Deep inside your heart Your soul Your skill Your eyes Your face Your sound Your will Your mind Your friends Your foes Your self Your kind Your skin Your bones Your imminent demise!