[Intro] i don't recognize this face. dead man walking! [Verse 1 i found an old photograph buried underneath my bed a stupid kid with stupid dreams before the world got in his head he had a fire in his eyes he thought that he could change the world now i can barely recognize the fucking person in that photo i didn't lose him overnight i killed him one mistake at a time every promise that i broke left another piece behind [Pre-Chorus] i kept saying i'd come back i kept saying i'd be fine but every road i took left that kid further behind [Chorus] dead man walking! i'm still breathing but i'm gone dead man walking i've been dead here all along i burned the person i was just to survive what i became now i wear his fucking face but i don't remember his name dead man walking! [Verse 2] i learned to laugh when i was hurting learned to lie when i was scared learned to push away the people who were stupid enough to care every mirror tells the story every scar remembers why i kept choosing self-destruction just to prove that i could survive now the things i used to love feel like they're happening to someone else i spent so long becoming harder i forgot how to be myself [Pre-Chorus] i kept saying i'd come back i kept saying i'd be fine but there's nothing left to save when you've buried yourself alive [Chorus] dead man walking! i'm still breathing but i'm gone dead man walking! i've been dead here all along i burned the person i was just to survive what i became now i wear his fucking face but i don't remember his name dead man walking! [Bridge] tell me when did i become this? when did anger become my skin? when did every fucking battle turn into a war within? i blamed the world. i blamed the past. i blamed everyone— except myself. and now there's nobody left to blame. [Guitar Solo] [Verse] maybe there's still a heartbeat underneath all of this noise maybe i can find the pieces of the person i destroyed i can't undo what i've become i can't pretend that i'm the same but if i'm still fucking breathing maybe i can rebuild the name [Final Chorus] dead man walking! i'm still breathing but i'm gone dead man walking! i've been dead here all along i burned the person i was just to survive what i became now i wear his fucking face but i don't remember his name dead man walking! dead man walking! dead man walking! [Outro i don't recognize this face. but maybe i can learn it again.
