ThickSkinLyrics

I sold my soul for you. You cut my life in two. Nightmares

from what I've seen and where I've been made me run from

you again

Controlling, Big Brothers eye. Containment? I'd rather die

we're all part of a new generation sold our souls to the

next temptation lead us not to our own damnation

I've seen what hatred brings. I've seen the flesh of kings

Blinded my eyes my mouth you've sewn it shut

protecting me from fucking up?

I feel the things I said but

never said how I felt

I know I waited much too long

could I get it in your head

Without a hit below the belt

looking back it seems that I

went about it all wrong.

Lying alone in the bed we

made watching headlights on

the shade The ghost that's

sleeping by your side are my

promises to you that died.

Was it long ago when forever

was our friend

but now freedoms what I feel

inside

It hurts so much to let you go

to know we'll never touch

again

When I walk if I fall down

Can I take it in stride?

I might let you go but I'll

never go away

Everythings changed

all ties are strained to say

the least. Concepts deranged

it's just the way I see you

only I see the real you

You can't swallow me. I'm jagged

as the pill you choke on

You can't swallow me as long

as I can see the real you

I can't be blamed to feel this

way more and more.

Everythings strange

I won't let you pull me down

I got my shit together now

I won't let you pull me down I

got my shit together

As the day breaks through the doorway

and I'm still chained to this house but you call me and I

follow and act like I'm so proud. Still reading the

sidewalk and it smells like morning news and I don't

know why I still can't seem to pull away from you. Watch

the window time means nothing. Watch the window til I

see you coming. Born a begger will you ever see me more

than Pavlovs hungry dog see no colors live another day

to feed on everything you are. When the day sleeps and

the sunshine no longer burns my eyes and the sound of

your footsteps is the only thing that lies between me

and the feeling that life is these four walls that cage

me completely just waiting on your call. I run for you

and fall so hard. My secrets are buried in the yard.

Eightball hanging overhead flushed

out like Frankenstein one more for the living dead that's

not me this time knocked down I've been down before yet

still we bare the load if I could want it anymore I just

might explode All your heroes have died and left you to

rise from the ashes and live for today Can you take it

all when we're standing tall we don't need a wall built

around us Jump into the flame one and all the same we

won't feel the pain Thick is the Skin Thick is the Skin

Outside still looking in I'll keep what I've made mine

timebomb strapped to my chin step down or fall in line

I never promised you the sunshine you never handed me the

moon we're pulling threads out of our faded silver lining

we've grown out of our cocoon The last train is leaving

there's nothing more that I can say I didn't mean to bring

you down I guess I'll see you around

I left the best of my intentions. Took it one day at a time

it's not like all is lost or that the world is ending we've

just fallen from the vine. Whatever direction we go rest

assured the one thing We know thing just really didn't go

our way

You're testing my patience

I've got nothing but time

You'll never break down the

walls in my mind. Your fetishes

are nothing more than a game

When I truly test your threshold

of pain. Let me be in your

ceremony burn me in your ritual

I can rise with you below me

We'll walk in time as we fall

into the mouth of VooDoo

Then we can shine, shine, shine

and I'm sure the sun won't mind

Then we can shine, shine, shine

Your love is so blinding my lust

is a curse it's painful to wonder

but waiting is worse

You're sticking your pins now

it's taking it's toll

crush and obsession leave scars

on your soul

There's a sound in my head. Holy wine,

breakin' bread between time and what

we said drifts the innocence we've

shed. In this moment there's a day for

a sad and broken babe. There's a

fracture on this hallowed ground

Where we lay One light burns, one

light fades. Behind the door are

better days. When the light

shines on me I'll know the world

still turns. One light burns.

There's a prayer on the wall.

One by one say them all.

Why we run before we crawl stands

the reasons that we fall

In the flower there's a field. Sublime

but so surreal. There's a fracture on

this sacred ground to be healed.

I have been here for so long I've carried all the

weight 'til something pulls me underneath the tide. Climb

to where the air is so thin so I can breathe again. Still it

makes me wonder deep inside. Nothin's free, no-one

bleeds, we're all machines. Shadows of your sins are

following you. When it sucks you in it's swallowing you,

King of the mountain that's what I am. Everybodys

someone elses sarificial lamb. Space between the world

and me, defying gravity 'til something pulls me closer to

the ground. Drink the chemicals we spill. Our eye is on

the kill while hell is freezing over, over.

Building shrines to gods you'll

never know praying for rain

settling for snow. Spinning out of

times to beats impaired. Do you

know your name do you even care?

Can you live your life staring at

the lights naked on the ice? If it

comes to fast will you get it

back when it all goes black?

Down. Goin Down.

Goin down from. Down from

underground.

Icons that you hail are all

mechanical.

feeling the pull lost in the fold

Digging through a

hole of discontent

What did you learn?

or did you forget?

And just what should real life

be? Why don't you show me the

fiction of reality.

This so called life that I see

and just what real life should be

can't be what you have shown me

Peel me like dead skin hate to the

bone drag you through my field of thorns and drop you

like a stone Hold me under water kick me to the curb

all my wolves are at your door take me at my word

Hittin a wall we're hittin a wall you look at me and

you're seeing a monster you ain't seen it all

If you're almighty holier than thou seems we've got a

discrepancy we should solve it now I've built a bigger

mountain now you want it gone if you expect to beat

me down brother bring it on. You want to wrestle with

my morals you think there's something I can learn You

toss me out like an abortion And I'm the one that

fucking burns?