(Intro:) FIXING THE HOLE [Verse 1] They told me black was white when I was five, They told me wrong was how the good survived, They filled my head with stories dressed as fact, And every time I doubted, they attacked. So I learned to keep the questions out of sight, And built my little world of wrong and right, But somewhere underneath the painted wall, A little voice kept whispering through it all. [Chorus] I'm fixing the hole inside my head, Where all the lies came pouring in, I'm pulling out the words they fed, And trying to remember who I've been. I'm fixing the hole, I'm fixing the hole, Before there's nothing left but what I'm told. [Verse 2] They gave me heroes made of cardboard saints, And enemies constructed from complaints, They showed me pictures carefully arranged, And said the world was dangerous and strange. I learned the slogans, learned them word for word, Until the truth became a thing unheard, And when the facts came knocking at my door, I couldn't tell the truth from lies anymore. [Chorus] I'm fixing the hole inside my head, Where all the lies came pouring in, I'm pulling out the words they fed, And trying to remember who I've been. I'm fixing the hole, I'm fixing the hole, Before there's nothing left but what I'm told. [Bridge] Now every certainty is turning grey, The things I knew don't look the same today, And every voice that once commanded me Sounds like an echo of a memory. [Verse 3] I'm finding names for things I couldn't name, I'm learning fear and truth are not the same, I'm letting questions wander through the room, And opening a window from the gloom. It isn't easy throwing out the past, When every lie was built to make it last, But underneath the rubble I can see A frightened man who might still learn to be free. [Final Chorus] I'm fixing the hole inside my head, Where all the lies came pouring in, I'm pulling out the words they fed, And trying to remember who I've been. I'm fixing the hole, I'm fixing the hole, I'm making room for something of my own. [Outro] Something of my own... Something of my own... Not what I was told. [Outro]
