Otep

My pain, my pride, these scars are mine
My pain, my pride, these scars are mine
My pain, my pride, these scars are mine

I will tell you a story that's never been told
I will tell you a secret five lifetimes old
My life has been a prison
A labyrinth built beneath the mountain of tragedy
I'm a stain on the cloth, I'm just an after-thought
But I would die for this

But through the veins of decay, I'll remain to betray
To live like Caesar, to die like Jesus
To build my own religion
No gods, no laws
To celebrate pain forsaken and ashamed
To watch them all crawl beneath us
On this bed of nails and regret
Dying of fevers, betrayal, and sweat, I cry

My organs are rotting, my enemies are plotting
I am made of pages paragraphs and inspirations
Paper girl, burn the world I pass the flame to you

Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, fuck her, slay them

My pain, my pride, these scars are mine
My pain, my pride, these scars are mine, my pain

My misery has been formulated into an equation of nine
My sanity wrote a suicide note but
One of us is illiterate and the other is blind
My first act of treason was picking up a pen
My first act of love was finding myself again
The hardest thing to do was standing up to you
Now I'm off my knees, now you're begging me please
I'm the wound and the weapon, the fracture and the fist

My organs are rotting, my enemies are plotting
I am made of pages paragraphs and inspirations
Paper girl, burn the world I pass the flame to you

Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, hurt her, hate him
Murder, mayhem, fuck her, slay them

My pain, my pride, these scars are mine
My pain, my pride, these scars are mine, my pain

That stabbing in your heart
That black hole in your soul
Slowly ripping you apart
That's me, that's me

So let it be written
So let it be done
The brighter they shine
The darker we become

Vae victus, abomination
Vae victus, abomination
Vae victus, abomination