[Intro] I gave pieces of myself away like I had an infinite supply, but now I define bereft—in lieu of theft. Funny how bleeding for people works—they stop asking if you're okay, but ask if you got anything left. I tried to fix a broken world, tried to be to them what my life lacks. Now I'm becoming everything I hate painfully felt myself slip through the cracks. --- [Verse 1] I gave them pieces of me, they extracted every bit now I'm an empty pit. Gave them my all and now they wonder why I don't give a shit? Carried their burdens while mine crushed me in turn. Helped them to stand but they watched me gradually burn. I was the dwindling fire in the rain strangers would swarm to stay warm. While they watched me drown in the downpour of this raging storm. Put my spirit on the line...swore I'm fine...they ignored every sign. I pulled knives from each spine only so they could put them back in mine. I took bullets for people who would've pulled the trigger all the same. Defended their name while they turned on me now they shame who I became. Oh, that's not how it is, well that's exactly how it fuckin' looks. Now I'm the villain, you're just chillin', every piece of my peace they took...fuckin' crooks. --- [Pre-Hook] I kept cutting pieces off so that I could make everybody whole. But everything that fed my soul they stole left a dark and rotten hole. Now I'm staring in the mirror and I don't recognize who looks back. Staring at this stranger I can't fucking escape as my mind starts to crack. I'm now gone, rebirth as dusks new spawn. Say farewell to the light of a hopeful dawn. --- [Hook] I'M BECOMING EVERYTHING I HATE! FEELING MYSELF BEGIN TO DISASSOCIATE! EVERYTHING I SWORE I WOULD NEVER BE! TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK...SEE...PITY WHAT YOU'VE MADE OF ME! I'M BECOMING EVERYTHING I HATE! NO PART OF ME LEFT TO RESUSCITATE! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING I HAD...EVERY GOD DAMN THING! NOW I'M NOTHING...EMPTY...NOT WORTH THE ROPE TO SWING. I WASN'T THIS MONSTER BEFORE...ONCE I WAS SO MUCH MORE... YOU PLANTED THE SEED IN THE HOLE YOU TORE DEEP WITHIN MY CORE... --- [Verse 2] Betrayal doesn't make you bitter, it makes you cold. It makes you suspicious of every fuckin' thing you're told. Every word seems like another hidden trap. Every helping hand just waiting to snap. Every "trust me" triggers panic that consumes my mind. If you took the time to view what I keep confined do you know what you'd find? Countless reasons to quit endless ways why I am doomed to fail. Self respect starved and frail, just let the problems of you in me to prevail. Who came when I was drowning struggling for a fuckin' breath? Who was there when I fed the overwhelming thoughts of death? Was I ever loved—or force fed lies until the love in me dies? I remember every name, every disguise, every step towards my demise. Every bridge I built now burns set aflame after my back turns. And I fuckin' blamed myself—but even a broken man eventually learns. Thought giving more would make them care. Thought my spirit was just something easy to share. Let you take more again...again...again lost sight of myself. Until compassion no longer sat high upon the shelf. --- [Break] Any forgiveness became resentment and love blossomed into hate. I mastered how to channel pain don't be sorry now it's a little too late. Buried myself, left for dead, but I feel my ghost possessing my husk. Now I'm that sadistic laughter that echoes free from impenetrable dusk. --- [Hook] I'M BECOMING EVERYTHING I HATE! FEELING MYSELF BEGIN TO DISASSOCIATE! EVERYTHING I SWORE I WOULD NEVER BE! TAKE A LONG HARD LOOK...SEE...PITY WHAT YOU'VE MADE OF ME! I'M BECOMING EVERYTHING I HATE! NO PART OF ME LEFT TO RESUSCITATE! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING I HAD...EVERY GOD DAMN THING! NOW I'M NOTHING...EMPTY...NOT WORTH THE ROPE TO SWING. I WASN'T THIS MONSTER BEFORE...ONCE I WAS SO MUCH MORE... YOU PLANTED THE SEED IN THE HOLE YOU TORE DEEP WITHIN MY CORE... --- [Final Verse] Now if someone hurt me—I didn't fucking flinch, I just smile and wait. Don't forgive, don't blink, don't react how you'd think, just smile hiding my hate. The day I realized anything positive inside had completely died... Was the same day I gained a darker view of me I admired in twisted pride. I guess I let myself become this fuckin' atrocity...mercy is lost to me. The fire you used to see is now the pit where the frost lingers free. Don't stand there and fake the face of the confused of what you set loose. You opened the door to what was waiting to help string up the noose. One betrayal here, maybe a little lie there, built the damage now too vast to repair. You know what...why bother...I'm well aware you don't know how to fuckin' care. I've become everything in you that I deeply hate... If I could turn back time I would but sad to say I've accepted my fate...
