05 - The Great White Boss (Remastered)

[Intro] "Call the witness." "State your name for the record." The wound with teeth. "Then testify." [Verse I] I was born where the clocks kept ticking In a chest full of grief and fear A son with his hands still shaking Begging death not to come near I watched steel become a heartbeat Watched smoke become a prayer Old cigars in a darkened room Still left his ghost in the air [Pre-Chorus I] Before the blood Before the bite Before the sea turned red I was a child Afraid to lose The only light I had left [Chorus] I am the witness, I am the cost I am the son that Your silence lost You made the grief, I made it talk I AM the Great White Boss I am the witness with blood in my jaws I am the proof of Your holy flaws You made the wound, I made it my cross The Crownless King, The Great White Boss [Verse II] Black and white cracked open wide Red came flooding through my eyes A good son broke beneath the weight Of holy guilt and mother’s faith Crown of thorns around my throat Prayer turned chain with every note Beautiful turned brutal in the storm And something hungry took my form The shark was not a mask I chose It grew where mercy decomposed When Heaven left me to the waves I learned what swims beneath the grave [Pre-Chorus II] Before the throne Before the trial Before I dragged You here I was the scream Beneath the hymn That no one chose to hear [Chorus] I am the witness, I am the cost I am the son that Your silence lost You made the grief, I made it talk I AM the Great White Boss I am the witness with blood in my jaws I am the proof of Your holy flaws You made the wound, I made it my cross The Crownless King, The Great White Boss [Verse III] Then came the walls inside my mind An asylum built from the things You denied A raven screamed where silence fed And madness made itself my bed The void looked back with hollow eyes Forsaken beneath Your empty skies Bells tolled low for love and death War dreams stole my father’s breath But I did not die in the padded sea The Conqueror woke in the dark of me If You made grief into my cell Then I made madness ring the bell [Spoken Bridge] "Exhibit one..." "The son afraid to remain." "Exhibit two..." "The world bleeding red." "Exhibit three..." "The asylum behind his eyes." "Exhibit four..." "The myth written in ink." "Exhibit five..." "The portrait with no man left inside." And standing before this court... IS WHAT SURVIVED THEM ALL!! [Verse IV] I walked through Hades with ink in my veins Gave gods and monsters all my pain The wolves came home, the hydra screamed Medusa stared through every dream Labor after labor, scar after scar I found my throne where the dead things are The underworld did not bury me It taught my suffering sovereignty Then truth arrived with a knife in hand Illusion cracked where I used to stand The portrait smiled, but I was gone And what remained had teeth all along [Breakdown I] CALL THE SON! He feared the loss! CALL THE SHARK! The Great White Boss! CALL THE RAVEN! Strapped and crossed! CALL THE GODS! Where myths were tossed! CALL THE PORTRAIT! Name embossed! CALL THE TRUTH! Illusion lost! ALL FIVE ALBUMS! ALL FIVE SCARS! ALL FIVE WOUNDS BECAME MY JAWS! [Breakdown II] I was the fear! I was the flame! I was the beast That wore my name! I was the cell! I was the sea! I was the myth That swallowed me! You made the wound! I made it my cross! The Crownless King! The Great White Boss! [Final Chorus] I am the witness, I am the cost I am the son that Your silence lost You made the grief, I made it talk I AM the Great White Boss I am the witness with blood in my jaws I am the proof of Your holy flaws You made the wound, I made it my cross The Crownless King, The Great White Boss I am the witness, I am the law I am the mouth of every scar You made the monster, now face the loss The Original Sin — THE GREAT WHITE BOSS!! [Outro] "Let the record show..." "The witness has spoken." "The deep..." "The dread... " "The Great White Boss..."