see the lit up back of my mind
anybody could get lost so i’ll drive
surrounded by killer cold drastic thoughts
so what i need here
is a way to keep them off
and a
flaming pillar burnin off the shadows
what you wanna do to get the romans in a battle
laymen coming like a bad habit
foam at the mouth and start bitin like a bad rabbit
but what you can’t have
is the bad me comin
so what you mad at?
you about had me running
and what i seen makes me wanna get a reason to pass on by
same facts
need a reason for nothin
no piece of cake
and no easy pie
ya know we’re running out of spaces where the evil eye
can never see us
now we lift the pages up
see the maze get taller when you’re paid enough

ten steps
and ya closer to death
bite your tongue or you’ll be out of breath (still breathing)
do what ya can to get out of a mess
but you still see all of what’s left
take time
cover all of it up
but you still come back in the stuff (still breathing)
don’t slip
need to button your lip
cuz your words keep makin ya trip

now what they may say he’s about
is he’s a mighty old man sitting on the couch
they never seen him rock
they just say he getting older but know
they dead wrong
he’s a man of the moment
don’t you dare come around if you goin to stress
go pick it up
stop
throw it
the man come and help
go on
cuz there’s a comet with our name on it speeding
through the cosmos searchin
waiting years for to see us
and my brain pops
and the world changes the locks
come from outside just to put your brain in a box
tick tock
got my hands on the clock
but i can’t even manage a knock
and i keep saying that the
same god who boasts he can’t lie
is comin back to us thousands of times
but where’s he going in the meantime?
is he stepping out on the planet?
we need a father not a god
goddammit

ten steps
and ya closer to death
bite your tongue or you’ll be out of breath (still breathing)
do what ya can to get out of a mess
but you still see all of what’s left
take time
cover all of it up
but you still come back in the stuff (still breathing)
don’t slip
need to button your lip
cuz your words keep makin ya trip

once i was afraid, i was petrified
i sat for a thousand years with only madness at my side
and i dreamed of all those pieces that you took from out my head
i did dread
that you’d come back from the dead
but you’re gone and some enterprising white mage with a soft
has removed all of the hardness and the light is shining off
but still this dungeon that i’m in
well it's pretty f***ing lame
and if i am to exit i must fight the cube of shame

ten steps
and ya closer to death
bite your tongue or you’ll be out of breath (still breathing)
do what ya can to get out of a mess
but you still see all of what’s left
take time
cover all of it up
but you still come back in the stuff (still breathing)
don’t slip
need to button your lip
cuz your words keep makin ya trip