the evil in this world is out to get me running for my life death will catch me demons in my thoughts and they're never resting questioning myself learning lessons chasing me through these waking dreams and they're pacing me shadowy i'm tiring heat from the flames resides within i am a man bathed in the fire that was built from sin came back burnt and blistering learned from the hurt that i suffered in kept on running til i reached the end when i finally did i had made amends with the hurt that usurped my confidence wallow in this common sense

when i grip a microphone i spit my truth call it like i see it listen if you want to i'm no miracle man never raised from the dead never fed the masses with a basketful of fish and bread i can't walk on water can't heal the sick nothing's turning into wine because of something i did i have sinned probably will again pretending like i'm perfect would make me a dishonest man i hate being one of them disgrace as a punishment dishonoring my family an embarrassment to how i been brought up caught up now inside a life where the truth is in perception and not everybody can be right what if i'm wrong guess that's for you to form your own opinions on i could be just a pawn sacrificed in the game of life protecting the royalty like their any better than me equal inherently i am a man i make mistakes may sin again and lose my way but in the end i will plead my case before the judge claiming that i lived with Love i am a man i make mistakes may sin again and lose my faith but in the end i will plead my case before that judge i am a casualty sick of monotony sick of these tv screens that keep on watching me forgotten options opting into this hypocrisy striving for perfecting is what's killing me sick of bad news headlines all of the shit most of all i'm sick of everybody calling me sick i am a man-child with his own perception of reality maddeningly handling with care my mind's fragility an entertaining self-proclaimed actor in life the play the tragedy's some pay to see the monster inside of me the Jekyll that i wrestle with i'm battling the beast release me from these demons i paid my dues lived by the rules i bent them some and i broke a few i made mistakes my choice to choose learned from them cuz that's how i am a man i am a man i make mistakes may sin again and lose my way but in the end i will plead my case before the judge claiming that i lived with Love i am a man i make mistakes may sin again and lose my faith but in the end i will plead my case before that judge

in this life i failed to be what you needed from me once blind but now i see all i need do is be panicked feeling schizophrenic finger lingers on the trigger happy now feeling bigger shotguns fantasies free me from these dreams locked in a nightmare scared of nothing lost in fear concealed behind the eyes looking back from in the mirror i see the end is near i’m battling my demons here let’s talk how about you listen i’ve been in this position mixing fact with fiction for years now swimming in my own reality the real world saddens me its maddening i didn’t plan to be my plan is not to be take these thoughts away from me daydreams masquerade behind scary masks the fact is that i cannot escape my past relax take a real deep breath depression repressed fake a smile await death zombies are tomorrow they’re today but don’t eat flesh instead they follow trends fit in working weekends mindless drones wannabe pseudo-clones boasting smart phones mortgages and car loans futures on the dow jones money is the crack we’re the ones that cooked it though i’m through being part of it should have realized from the start of it could have been a harlequin pantomiming everything bring pleasure to the masses without a word being heard spoken my will is broken coping with these mental problems i have like explosions hoping that it gets a little better where i’m going otherwise i’m squeezing on this trigger that i’m holding in this life i failed to be what you needed from me once blind but now i see all i need do is be

this world's too blind to see there's too much apathy what's happening here we go again remember my friend that this is not the end even no action holds consequence here we go again there's a calamity trapped inside of me i'm still living, see i'm used to suffering tussling with thoughts distraught by answers that I sought wrought with confusion taut are mind strings fought with myself since a young age imagination stationed in the spaces of my mind deranged anyone can change moments you can't take away (x)cope with those by knowing that you learn from your mistakes wake up empathize with me a minute wear my shoes then it might make sense this isn't finished it is only the begining walk a mile in me be the reasons i am living i am on a mission wishing to maintain all my conviction fixing to relay my vision til the day that i am finished until then I will live with everything that i've been given suffering through my condition this world's too blind to see there's too much apathy what's happening here we go again remember my friend that this is not the end even no action holds consequence here we go again

hasten action taken placing verbiage in a certain way syllable subversion filling meters up with tragedy lurking in the hurt is something worth another listen the descriptions of visions are hidden quickening the mind’s pace thoughts race through space time connect rhymes designed to move you in place smell the way the lyrics taste and embrace the confusion buddha knew the truth happiness is illusive suffering is mass produced its made us conducive to believe illusions i see the trouble brewing moving in to ruin our rights that remain i watch with disdain painfully a witness to the murder of our future truthfulness is what we need when lies are what we’re used to we’re the ones to blame placing men on pedestals worshipping the fame Watch it Shine Watch it Shine Watch it Shine Set the World on Fire and Watch it Shine blinded by the shiny all the women and dollar bills seven figure living and a house that’s upon a hill 401k’s stock option trades mutual funds and a bank account to save a wallet full of cash credit cards buying happiness signing your life away if you never pay it back taken out loans for a car and a dream home status symbol living watching cable tv shows pop culture lovers don’t discover instead they’re lead counting dollar signs from pillow top beds forming opinions based on what they’re told not realizing that the dream has just been gilded gold we’re headed away from home living this life alone texting on our smart phones this is the path we chose following the paved road wandering for miles chasing ends of rainbows Watch it Shine Watch it Shine Watch it Shine Set the World on Fire and Watch it Shine

some will never reach the depths where life is all that you have left death is better yet a place of fear you're all alone they're even tracking you on your mobile phone darkness beckons and it looks like home running for your life though you wish it was gone when your cover's blown where do you turn when you're all alone would jesus believe this what about buddha when did we lose lao tsu's way now we are living inside of these prisons where loathing and fear is the game this is real i can still feel fallacy of life held onto it so dear now i cannot leave from here spirit world, middle earth trapped inside a life of fear yeah, i'm still living sufferings become a given stuck inside some kind of prison solitude as a religion pieces of the puzzle missing there's pieces of the puzzle missing the picture is incomplete made that way by mass deceit to confuse the plebes weed out free thinkers replace them with some order takers lessen our knowledge learning isn't overrated no debate there's give not take make no mistake freedom's worth the price that you have to pay work for what you're worth go and seize the day would jesus believe this what about buddha when did we lose lao tsu's way now we are living inside of these prisons where loathing and fear is the game