If I knew you, 
you weren't who I thought you were, 
Maybe I could be cured, 
Of who I thought I was. 
It's a disease. 
Diseased part of a masterpiece 
A brain that's always breaking, 
breaking down. 
breaking down. 
 
The chasms calls, 
step closer to me girl 
drown inside my world 
its easier to fall. 
Step closer girl 
Lose sight of words 
it's  far easier to fall 
My hands, 
My hands are cold  
My blood is blue 
and my mind...

People never see us as we truly are; 
it is up to us to do that for ourselves.   
They either see us as greater than or less than, but never exact,
and their perception is never quite equal to the truth.

People never see us as we truly are; 
it is up to us to do that for ourselves.  
They either see us as greater than or less than, but never exact,
and their perception is never quite equal to the truth.

I cried out "I want to be great or nothing!"
How was I to know that this truth had shackled to itself an air of fatality?

We have been beaten black and blue.
Died for justice,
And just living too.
We dared to struggle,
Dared to dream,
And now it’s time to set my people free.
We dared to have lungs and dared to breathe,
We all bleed blood and, when hurt, we scream.
Are we somehow not valid to you?
Is our suffering too loud for you?
Are the marks of our blood on the streets an inconvenience to you?
I ask now “WHAT DID...

Did you know that you could've been me?  Yes me, with all of the tissue and scars beneath the shell of my face.  A face that now has to face the fact that it lost my limbs during the aftermath.  Likewise, I could've been you.  Bright eyes that have never known the dew.  Never known the way that it makes grooves in your face and erodes your nerves away until all feeling fades.  If you were me and I were...

Did you know that you could've been me?  Yes me, with all of the tissue and scars beneath the shell of my face.  A face that now has to face the fact that it lost my limbs during the aftermath.  Likewise, I could've been you.  Bright eyes that have never known the dew.  Never known the way that it makes grooves in your face and erodes your nerves away until all feeling fades.  If you were me and I were...