Ever since I can remember it has lived within

It waited and it slumbered, waited and it slumbered

One day you awakened the leviathan

It wasn't much longer 'til it began to hunger

Some kind of cosmic wager from the devil and god

And I was in the middle, I was in the middle

They pushed it down inside me so I'll never resolve

The answer to this riddle, answer to this riddle

How it hangs on me

Haunting еvery step that I take

Likе a big brother

Whose shadow you could never escape

Or your drunk stepfather

You didn't measure up in his eyes

He laid his hands upon you

Now go your way and do likewise

So I drowned it in the ocean depths

It just came back stronger

So I tried to smother it

Beneath my sheets and comforters

Scared it would take control

If I don't extinguish it

But there's days I think I'd feel that way no matter what I did

The first time that I hit you I just lost control

Your final shred of refuge drained away and left you

Trembling there in front of me, completely exposed

To the blackest of intention, past all intervention

I gazed into your eyes and saw your motives and plans

Hiding just behind the levee, just behind the levee

I knew that if I gave you even half of a chance

That one day when you're ready, like dead skin you would shed me

Move on to something better

A house with a two car garage

Just leave me spinning downward;

The bullet that you narrowly dodged

Can't let you have that power

You'd only screw it up anyway

If you have no rudder

You'll do whatever I say

And we'll go on this way eternally

Inside our private hell

And I'll siphon pieces of you off

'Til you're an empty shell

I've thrown it scraps for years

To sate its appetite

But this snarling beast that lives in me demands a sacrifice

So you've been wandering the streets for days

Well that's just fine with me

I'm only waiting for that moment when you finally

Come home and find me swaying here

Beneath your tightened rope

And I swear I hear some creature laughing there behind us both