In a shroud All my curtains have come down CAnd inside I can barely mutter a sound Outside I know The light still shines for those who hope But I can't and I don't and I won't DBut that's the closure. That's the deal Only I decide how I feel. I feel like I have lost my mind I feel like I have lost my mind Something's missing I just cannot find it again Where are all my friends.? In a cloud Where the spirits live another day Why don't They come on down and Encourage me to stay I know that thing That everybody says It's ok.I am broken There's no hoping all this talking That's the closure. That's the deal Only I decide how I feel. I feel like I have lost my mind I feel like I have lost my mind Something's missing I just cannot find it again Hey where are all my friends.? Return To Me AmReturn to Me EmReturn to Me... I feel like I have lost my mind I feel like I have lost my mind Something's missing I just cannot find it again... Again... Again... Where are all my friends.? Where are all my friends.?

How wise the God who trades his son for lesser men Who seek no temple, only avarice and permanence Judge not the heart, but thy devotion Keep those who remain As close to salvation as to destitution I can't explain what it means to be whole You took that virtue away from me A kingdom adorned with the thorns of thy idol Who scorn the breath of truth and reason We cannot pretend That the rules are the same For the blasphemer and the saint, the blasphemer and the saint We cannot pretend That the rules are the same For the commoner and the priest, the commoner and the priest The toils I've endured are so far beyond meaning There is no greater voice, only tenets and blood-stained stones Your archaism dies this day You are but the shadow of a lie Feeble and brittle like silence Bending the fear of earnest held faith You took the world from us From cracked and sullen hands As hope slipped through our fingers And sank beneath the sands Fire sows the fire Wrath rends retribution Effigies casting shadows Likening tyrants to deities Befelling monuments To prove hence from this day What's written in stone Can crumble to dust To what end was I made this way If my nature is a transgression I cannot build myself up again To watch myself fall apart at the seams I cannot walk if I'm destined to fall Through trials by design of cruelty and hate You are so frail You hide behind your fear Your faith is a mask for your insecurity And you wield it like a sword Summoning the flood, the call of the raging seas Apollyon's wake before the world We ache, we fear and we suffer for naught Undue and unjust is the the folly of Christ Transient echoes from a long lost era Cannot conceive my fate I suffer the want for a better world And the need for compassion in terrible times Great is my weakness to punish myself for A love forbidden by those who bore me Behind the weight of this cage of bones Is a heart that sinks at the sights of greed Of a Lord who damns his beloved creation For sins he determined his sons to commit I cannot pretend That I am the same As I once was As I once was If dreams lie in tatters And a soul knows no purpose What can I hope for What can I live for There was a time where I could forgive But I've lost so much So fucking much I hate that I hate As it brings me closer to you I am not what I am I am not what I am I am so lost in this place These vast surroundings compel me to dread As I sink within myself Forging an irrepassable path I can't regret what I feel is just I am one with the sword you held to me Reflection in the steel I am not what I am Forged and contorted I am what I am Forged and contorted

Sometimes I like to get away from this maddening shroud Sometimes I'll have you know, it's all insane Maybe it's time for me, to pack it in Maybe it's time for me, to jack it in Maybe it's time for me, to halt I've got a good mind to throw it all away Throw it all away, throw it all away I've got a good mind to throw it all away After all, what is it worth? Sometimes I like to get away from the saddening crowd Sometimes I feel my life is all in vain Maybe it's time for me to, pack it in Maybe it's time for me to, jack it in Maybe it's time for me to, halt I've got a good mind to throw it all away Throw it all away throw it all away I've got a good mind to throw it all away After all, what is it worth? Some days my strength walks out Some days I can't go out It is for real, we can walk about We can work it over and over And over and over and over I've got a good mind to throw it all away Throw it all away, throw it all away I've got a good mind to throw it all away After all, what is it worth? I've got a good mind to throw it all away Throw it all away, simply throw it all away I've got this sunshine I'll throw it all away After all, what is it worth?