If you think you're paranoid it's already true Fear itself is after you Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Someone out there wants to hurt you Something's climbing up the stairs Me myself and I Fighting to the death I bring it on myself If you think you're paranoid it's already true Fear itself is after you Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Something's after me Something's watching me Something's hunting me Something's haunting me Something in the mirror that was looking at you funny Like a wolf's muscles quiver when it's chasing down a bunny It was hidden in a fissure between the fangs and the molars Of a smile masking worry you start running in a hurry But you can't get away, it's already in your head It's only being fed by your dread get it out But you can't, is it false is it true Fear itself is after you A dozen smiling faces form a vortex of fangs If you let them take your hand they'll drag you down to hell If you think everyone is out to get you, you might just be paranoid If you're paranoid, they might just be out to get you Look what they did to the others Toxicology reports buried Sanitarium doors locked If you think you're paranoid, you might just be paranoid If you're afraid you're paranoid, fear itself might just be out to get you If you think that everyone is out to get you, you might just be right Hunting me hunting me hunting me down Hunting me hunting me hunting me down Hunting me hunting me hunting me down Hunting me hunting me hunting me down If you think you're paranoid it's already true Fear itself is after you A movement in the shadows could just send you to the gallows And delusions are as dangerous as anything that's after us Like something in the mirror and the image starts to flicker And you're caught inside a cycle psyche dueling feedback looping Fear itself is self fulfilling Something out there's only growing People die, people die, people die, people dying Every smiling face is lying And what are we going to do... Fear itself is after you A dozen smiling faces form a vortex of fangs If you let them take your hand they'll drag you down to hell Climbing up your spine Hiding in your skull Watching from within the shadows... If it's all just in my head then I can't run away Fear itself can't be escaped Driving me driving me driving me mad Driving me driving me driving me mad Driving me driving me driving me mad Driving me driving me driving me mad Something's after me Something's watching me Something's hunting me Something's haunting me Me myself and I Fighting to the death I bring it on myself If it's all just in my head then I can't run away Fear itself can't be escaped Coming for coming for coming for me Coming for coming for coming for me Hunting me hunting me hunting me down Hunting me hunting me hunting me down Driving me driving me driving me mad Driving me driving me driving me mad Losing my losing my losing my mind Losing my losing my losing my mind And the coroner's report will read And the coroner's report will read You brought this on yourself

The sky is clear below me But clouds taste metallic Rain is tearing down me Now breath's drowned in static Lightning flies to greet me But clouds taste metallic Lightning numb's and heats me Now breath's drowned in static Mouth bound with metallic grace Tongue lined with metallic hate Blood and sand mask your face Quicksilver's the human fate Lightning tastes the clouds Lightning tastes the clouds The sky is clear below me But clouds taste metallic Rain is tearing down me Now breath's drowned in static Lightning flies to greet me But clouds taste metallic Lightning numb's and heats me Now breath's drowned in static

I see you nearly every day Mocking me with a chipmunk smile You keep your mouth shut, You do what you're told But you keep something just for you Something that you hold Why are your lips sealed shut? What do you do with your tongue? Why do you choke when they ask you to speak? What are you hiding in the folds of your cheeks? Do I want to see your smile, or do I want to stop it? What could a smile from something like you Do to a creature caught in it's view? I had a dream I dissolved in your mouth Caught in your throat like a dishonored vow Your skin looks the same Your bones rightly framed But if you're human I'm going insane If I pry your jaw open, and count all your teeth - If my doctor could hear this, what would she think... My heart skips at a twitch of your lips Behind your face I sense an abyss Where does your throats path lead? How do you drink or feed? What would a smile from one such as you Do to a creature caught in its view? I collapse to the ground I need to find out You smile at me, You open your mouth.

I walk down A white hall Walled by rows of heads that whisper as I go I see their hair But not their lips Yet somehow I still know They hate They hate me The whispers form a sea of sound I sometimes hear my name But then a word Comes crashing down I can't hear what they say But even when the words submerge the meaning of the dirge emerges I'm a scurge that must be purged I feel the urge to rip my skin off And hide beneath it They hate me They hate me They hate me I woke up In a white room I don't know how I got here And yet know where I am I look up At the bright view White without end An endless substance woven from more endless silken strands I don't know who I am now I don't know who I was Who but not what, I know what I am I can count every sinew and bone in my hand I look at my skin and can count every pore Each tiny abyss Each gland and each cyst The history of humanity Traced along my fingertips A shameful filthy heritage They hate me They hate me They hate me I hear every voice in the world Every syllable of every word And every one means one thing They hate me They hate me They hate me

Strip away my clouds Grind my mountains down Once my form is raw Take me in your maw Mold me to your cosmic will Stretch my flesh and hold me still Bore into my skull Siphon off my soul Stale neurotic flame Cauterize the brain We orbit a new star We orbit a nullstar When my star collapsed When my soul was void My orbit was displaced My home had been destroyed Nothing could bind me Nothing defined me I circled the dead star Dragging it with me A burden that needs to be released We orbit a new star Carve into my bone Make my flesh your own Leash me to your tide Where I will reside Take my molten embryo Heat it in your afterglow Chisel through my crust Pound the ground to dust The alter is your forge Altering my form Subsumed into the nebulae The power of the nullabye We orbit a nullstar Carry the weight of my soul I'll concede to your control Make my star a nebulae Overtake and rule the sky

I want to feel my body dissolving in your brain I want to feel your heartbeat as it siphons off the pain I want to feel my thighbones cascading down your throat So you could suck my cartilage and I would never know I want to take a hammer To my ephemeral mind Then melt off the carcinogens and others of its kind

Trapped within a tomb of skin I scream to let me out Fleshy mounds are all around but they don't heed my shout The insides are gooey, the fruit of the body, But it's just as dead as the skin Trapped within a tomb of skin I scream to let me out Fleshy mounds are all around but they don't heed my shout All I see are tones of flesh on flesh on flesh on flesh All I hear are tones of flesh on flesh on flesh on flesh Mounds of flesh All around Shed your skin Come on out Pupate with me! Pupate with me! Pupate with me! Nothing get's through me and no one speaks to me The tongues twisting means not a thing My body is betraying me my body is the enemy My body is betraying me my body is the enemy My body is betraying me my body is the enemy My body is betraying me my body is the enemy Writhing in a swathe Of loosely fitting skin Help me tear it off And let me try yours on I am not a person You are not a person You don't become a person Until you shed your skin All I see are mounds of flesh That I can't touch That I can't reach Mounds of flesh are nothing to me Trapped within a tomb of skin I scream to let me out Someone finally answered His skin's around me now He busted through my chrysalis With a dagger to the chest I scuttled up his spine and now we're out to free the rest All I see are mounds of flesh Stars encased in pockets of meat All I see are mounds of flesh Pop them open until it's complete All I see are mounds of flesh A constellation I'd like to meet All I see are mounds of flesh Bursting out Pupate with me! Barriers to cross There is no catharsis Constant and sharp No deeper meaning I'm not a human being Trapped in morph unfinished nothlit You have such lovely skin Peel it off and wrap me in it

My body is a temple And I want to burn it down Concrete geysers Pave me over Clog my throat and coat my pillars (concrete geysers) Exorcise me inside out Petrify my muffled shout Concrete geysers pave me over exorcise this rotten chamber Exorcise me inside out / Petrify my muffled shout Concrete geysers pave me over exorcise this rotten chamber I have this guilt and I don't know why / The vital need for which I would die This is terrible this is true / The thing I swore I'd never do Concrete geysers purify me Concrete geysers burn it down Concrete geysers I did nothing Concrete geysers get it out I enter the chamber and it's all rushing in My pores engorged and filling with sin The cause and the cure are one and the same purified by the source of my shame There's a spot where the floorboards rot and an echo rings of a buried heart It's hard to believe that that thing once beat in my own chest, now bereft I feel it now I want it out Kept at bay Sealed away The ritual that destroyed my soul must be repeated can't defeat it masqueraded desecrated hurricane initiated Concrete geysers Pave me over Clog my throat And coat my pillars Only love can save me / And love has destroyed me I want to feel physically like I feel emotionally Starved Beaten Broken I did nothing, nothing I did nothing Concrete geysers Pave me over Clog my throat and coat my pillars All of this shall come to pass A blanket of roaches on which we dance False desire / Errant impulse / A hurricane kept in a snowglobe Concrete geysers pave me over exorcise this rotten chamber This is terrible this is true / The thing I swore I'd never do False desire errant impulse a hurricane kept in a snowglobe All of this shall come to pass / A blanket of roaches on which we dance Concrete geysers purify me Concrete geysers burn it down Concrete geysers I did nothing Concrete geysers get it out Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious Glorious

Let's sing a song that'll put you to sleep Don't sing along until permitted to speak La Lullabye are you ready to die I'll hold your hand it's okay if you cry La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la La la la la Goodbye, lullabye, let me join the nebulae Rock me in your cradle like the winter moon's gentle tide

Someone's climbing up the stairs Something out there is wrong My heart boiled My skin peeled Ribcage rattled Came unsealed My heart's a foreign object Something's taking root Thrashing like a thing that's chained Ingrained in paint that faucets From the sprouting shoots Someone out there wants to hurt you Something's climbing up your spine Vertebrae by vertebrae Taking me over Something out there's getting closer Someone out there wants to hurt you Something's climbing up your spine Something's climbing up your spine Vertebrae by vertebrae Taking me over Something out there's getting closer Something out there is wrong