[Verse 1: Richard Patrick]

Pictures hung on the walls

Depicting a family's dreams

Looks like they could come

Right out of some plastic family magazine

I wish the pictures were true

And the stories they told were real

But I'd hate to say there was a rage

Somewhere deep inside their cage

[Chorus:]

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

[Verse 2:]

The cops show up but they're late

They could not stop all that hate

They climbed over the bodies and put

Up that yellow crime scene tape

And we thought that these people

Lived so calm and seemed fine

Looks like underneath someone had lived

With a blackened heart and mind

[Chorus:]

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

[Bridge:]

It's so hard to believe

Then they found a note

It came from a man with a knife

When they read it, it gave them a chill

"If I can't have her then no one will

Then no one will"

[Chorus:]

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down

Going down holding you

I'll take you down

I'll take you

Down