[Intro - spoken] No... no... don’t look away now This is the part where the lies leave you Where the mask slips Where the soul opens Breathe it in [Verse 1] You build your world on painted glass On borrowed names and hollow masks A little smile, a little grace A frail disguise stretched on your face You call it hope, you call it faith I call it perfume on decay Because the second darkness starts You hear the truth inside your heart It pounds It claws It begs It kneels And all at once your fiction peels [Pre-Chorus spoken] Fear is the pulse Fear is the key Fear is the thing That makes you seen [Chorus] Fear is the truth The purest thing in you Not love, not mercy Not the lies you cling to Fear is the light That opens up your mind And when it gets inside There is nowhere left to hide [Verse 2] I’ve watched the strongest rot and fold I’ve seen the brave turn frail and old One breath, one dose, one thread, one spark And suddenly they meet the dark Not my dark No, theirs The one they buried under prayers The teeth beneath their tempered skin The graveyard growing deep within You think I’m cruel You think I’m wrong Because I force the weak along But I have seen what terror brings A man laid bare is everything [Pre-Chorus spoken] Fear strips the flesh Fear clears the smoke Fear tears the truth Out of your throat [Chorus] Fear is the truth The purest thing in you Not love, not mercy Not the lies you cling to Fear is the light That opens up your mind And when it gets inside There is nowhere left to hide [Post-Chorus] So shake So break So let the horror bloom Let it crawl through every locked and hidden room You can call my name You can curse the air But the thing that’s killing you Was always waiting there [Bridge spoken] I am not your monster I am not your curse I am only consequence I only make it worse I lift the veil I turn the knife I introduce you to your life The panic in your blood is proof That fear has always spoken truth Now look at me Tell me I’m wrong While your heartbeat stumbles along Tell me again that I’m insane As your mind drowns in its own name [Final Chorus] Fear is the truth The purest thing in you When every part of you Begins to come unglued Fear is the light The ever-hungry eye And when it gets inside It keeps you wide awake at night Fear is the truth The blade beneath the skin The whisper in the walls The rot that grows within Fear is the truth And I have come to show That once you finally see it You will never let it go [Outro spoken] Breathe deeper There... Feel that trembling in your chest? That’s honesty That’s revelation That’s you
