[Verse]

Your eyes are painted red, just to show your rage

As the man with the sharp teeth bites down on your brain

Point me to your grave, that's where you’ll play guitar

With a gun to your head and a flame in your heart

They keep you in the basement with no one you can hurt

One more chain 'round your leg and twelve rips in your shirt

And now you're counting down ’til mother is dead

Like the rest of the world you detested for so long

[Chorus]

They don't tell you not to try

They just wear you down

As you run your fingers along the marked wall

That you chipped and inscribed

With the thoughts you could never let go

[Bridge]

And you're shaking your arm just to stay awake

As you're getting grey hairs at age twenty-two

You've been counting the hours down today

'Cause you know that you've got just one chance to escape all of this

[Chorus]

They don't tell you not to try

They just wear you down

As you run your fingers along the marked wall

That you chipped and inscribed

With the thoughts you could never let go