[Ambient sound, Egyptian chimes and instrumental] [Woman voice chanting melodic Arabic tones] [First verse.Male spoken word] I am matter Do I matter? Am I a boy or a girl? Am I an alien or animal? They are calling me all these things I feel them crush my spine and I smash like a roach under a shoe [Verse] Room after room I'm remembering more Remember more I'm talking to you now from an age I wasn't before Each room has a color, theme and feeling of pleasure or pain There's a screen at each frame when I'm not on the ground There's meds they keep me taking Kids all around And then some days they're gone [Pre chorus] What is this place? And why are the walls wet some days and dry the next I've been told I make up a lot while I'm here But somehow I didn't make them up if they like who I am And when they hate me I get to be anything Anything Anyone They call me Nobody Someone They call me something But I'm one or two things or more Always a thing [Chorus] A black drape at every corner of the theater sized room Chairs mounted everywhere They raise my fist from my wrist lifting me in a light So proud of what they made I guess that's me They say one for the power of two this time [Verse] And now I'm back at school That's the ways things work with this brain Explaining this way to you I'm an age now I wasnt then So many faces of every kind, the daily grind of what a normal life looks like They say you're gone, a bruise happens sometimes A cut too What are you doing to make people fall for your lies? The teacher wonders what the hell is going on but I had a gun to the back of my head last night So I'm not sharing one bit with her AND THEN BLACK [Chorus] A black drape at every corner of the theater sized room Chairs mounted everywhere with faces of every shape in a thobe, suit and a royal garb They raise my fist from my wrist lifting me into a light So proud of what they made I guess that's me They say one for the power of twenty three this time What's it mean? [Pre-chorus] I'm too little to believe this I'm just following what they say Whether the dirt, the snow, a door in a pyramid mountain late at night From a boat selling canned goods There's a barge with kids from Asia who are making friends with the kids that don't move anymore We found a way to live But now we're crazy for it [Verse] So many faces of every kind, the daily grind of what a normal life looks like to keep things silent They say you're gone, a bruise happens sometimes A cut too The emotions within start telling me what to do The undead soldier too He says fear is still their power [Machinery industrial ambiance] [Chorus] I'm too little to believe this I'm just following what they say Whether the jungle, the city, a door in a hotel late at night where celebrities watch me fight other kids Brought from a boat selling canned goods and food products They call these people humanitarian [Ending Verse] What would I know? And why did she let me go so easily? She was so quiet and cold from the beginning I liked her silence i thought she was living I'm just a stupid experiment And this is as good a treatment I'll get [Ending chorus] The man in red says, do what I say and someday you'll get your payback. I don't know how much debt can build up from this I don't know what money is He says, you'll get to know it You're a smart kid [Woman voice chanting melodic Arabic tones]
