you're the best

"you're the best they've ever seen" [bass locks in] ((they said it like they meant it)) stepped into the neon bright and bold a stow-re sold before it's truly told they find you time you with a practiced hand they take you make you across this barren land your face rewritten your name a borrowed sound identity hang-ing somewhere... above the ground phony people come to play backs turned every day hollow laughter fills the after-glow plastic smiles put on a show i wrote you told you "biggest fish out here" ((a proud declaration)) now sour in my ear trust dissolved like sugar in a bit-ter rain you should have never gone~ down this marked... terrain ALL YOU MAGGOTS ON THE BOULEVARD burning through the plastic scar phony hands up in the air wave them like you just don't care you should have never gone never trusted this just echoes... of a dream dissolving into this ((i stood ten feet tall on a wall made of rage)) told myself it was real told myself it was real "we are the best" as the truth hit the ground~ sugar in the rain just a... bitter sound never gone never trusted never whole never gone never trusted ((never whole))