(Spoken Word - No music, just a raw, breathless, choking voice over dead silence ) God, PLEASE let me take it back. Let me turn back time... I'm begging you, please. I need her to be alright. I can't be okay, if she's not okay. Why, fucking WHY?! Are you testing her? She's done nothing fucking wrong. Let her fucking be! Let her be.... Save her... punish me. (Beat Drops - A heavy, distorted bassline crawls in, slow and suffocating ) (Verse 1) The monitor is clicking out the seconds of my life I’m trading every breath I have to cut her from the knife White walls, cold floors, the room is closing in I’m screaming at the ceiling for the places that we've been Take the skin right off my bones, take the blood right out my veins Just empty out her shadow of this godforsaken pain She’s a feather in a tempest, she’s a candle in the storm And I am just a witness watching everything deform. (Chorus) So break me on the altar, smash the glass against my chest Give me all the agony, the nightmares, and the rest Leave her breathing in the sunlight, let her open up her eyes I will swallow every poison, I will carry all the lies Just let her be. Oh God, let her be. Take the hammer to my shoulders, put the shadow onto me. (Verse 2) She’s got a heart that never learned how to hate a single thing And you’re dragging down her spirit, snapping every single wing If there’s a ledger in the sky where the debts are being paid Put my name in the fire for the choices that I made She’s innocent, she’s golden, she’s the only thing that’s true So why the hell is she the one who's paying up to you? I’m a wreck, I’m a ruin, I’m a sinner on my knees Take it out on my reflection, bring me down into the freeze. (Chorus) And break me on the altar, smash the glass against my chest Give me all the agony, the nightmares, and the rest Leave her breathing in the sunlight, let her open up her eyes I will swallow every poison, I will carry all the lies Just let her be. Oh God, let her be. Take the hammer to my shoulders, put the shadow onto me. (Bridge - Music strips back to a crashing drum and a frantic, distorted guitar ) I’ll take the sickness! I’ll take the fall! Line me up against the target, let me suffer through it all! Don't you touch her! Don't you dare! It isn't right, it isn't just, it isn't fucking fair! Hear me screaming! Hear me roar! Take my life and throw it bleeding on the floor! (Guitar Solo - screaming, desperate, chaotic ) (Chorus - Explosive, maximum intensity ) So break me on the altar! Smash the glass against my chest! Give me all the agony, the nightmares, and the rest! Leave her breathing in the sunlight, let her open up her eyes! I will swallow every poison, I will carry all the lies! Just let her be! Oh God, let her be! Take the hammer to my shoulders, put the shadow onto me! (Outro - Music abruptly cuts out, leaving only a faint, echoing reverb ) Punish me. Not her. Please... Just let her be.
