[Verse 1] I was the kid they branded a demon, They said I was schizophrenic and possessed In the quicksand gaze of your judgment, They whispered, “Use your mind like a blade, conjure their belief." If you crawl beneath somebody’s skin, you own them intricately If you bend a heartbeat’s rhythm, the verdict’s carved in stone You proudly wear your sickness like fingerprints, so they got to break my bones Every move leaving fresh cuts you pretend are with smart intent You were the kid working for torturers history And didn't know it yet [Chorus] I’m discardable, an insufferable impact It’s me or you — survival in the attack But every time I strike, every cut, bruise and scar, You swear the pain I bring just makes you who you are You were trained for the front with a gun to your spine, Painting with wands they called your hands, LSD mind trip And they whispered in your ear like a sickness in the dark “If you can bend their feelings, then you own their heart.” “If you can change a mind, rewrite what they believe, Then what power does a demon really have to keep?” But I’m flesh and blood, A child More than your critical crisis design, A whole soul standing here that they need you too blind to find In the corners of the room you keep saving your skin, So you act like my head and heart is the place you’ve broken in You slither through programs, through the venom that you feed, Talking like you know the things that live inside of me But all I really see when I look into your eyes Is a terrified kid buried deep beneath their lies That’s all I see — one child full of dread, Holding borrowed hatred like a gun against their head You made an enemy of me to serve someone else's idea of you, Brainwashed into thinking you were mastermind enough But the strings around your wrists are the only truth I see — You’re just a frightened kid pretending you control me [Verse 2] You’re always fighting for the lead to bury what was done, With electric nerves and shattered words, they praise the webs you’ve spun A self-made shaman hive mind, twitching gold, your prophets crown your name, But every vision in your head was wired there by unrequited love You keep staring into me ’cause the chemicals run deep, Hallucinations in your bloodstream don’t let your conscience sleep They gave you something soft to drown, to blur what you became, But they left me wide awake instead with nothing numb for pain I’ve starved for days with hollow ribs, been tortured, chained, and stripped, Dragged through rooms where they made you watch sharpened at your grip Still you talk like I’m the sickness, like I’m the poisoned vein, While your fantasy’s entrenched so deep you can’t divide the truth from haze They handed you escape routes, little speaking lights to flee, But before this moment, years ago, you were standing here like me Another day, another face, another soul they’d break, And I was trapped inside the role that now you’ve learned to take I grew sick of all the speeches, all the scripted lines and noise, The empty chants, the forced belief, the manufactured poise But I can see from where you stand, with all your borrowed zen, This shattered stage, this false escape — was one you chose back then This confronting fact was what they made you swear You'd never be small You'd make others live in fear But as they blame and shame you for a past that tears at their heart With your wounds you can control them- Paint them all like its your own art [Chorus] I'm discardable Its me or you But when I attack You're better for that too You've been trained for the lead, with a gun at your back They whisper If you can change their feelings, change their mind Then what power would a demon have? I'm a whole person and you can't see that In the corners of the room you're trying to save your skin So it's my brain you pretend you've gotten in You slither in your opinions about being inside me But all I see is a terrified kid That's all I see One terrified kid But you've made an enemy of me to serve him Mind controlled to think you orchestrated this But you're just a terrified kid You're just a terrified kid In cornered seen adult skin Who's needing others to believe they've not been in your position But I'm the soul you couldn't fool The heart you couldn't break or help And many like me, made you question yourself Never asking Who do you work for anyway?
