Expect the world to fall in line beneath your feet

To pull on the string 'round my throat and choke me

Pulling back a bloodied lead, dragged along and dommed free

No saving in a world where strings of fate tie us closely

And there's nothing you can't do, you say

Willing fate to invented law so you can get your way

Throwing up venom, keep me from going astray

And not a single fiber chooses to even just fray

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

Never cared what I wanted yet I'm in your debt

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

Magnetically locked hopeless and wishing I was dead

How can I sense danger when it's the same repeated scene

In familiarity is how fate's hands justify their means

To blur lines and string together a nightmare and dream

And stitch this cursed fate to the rotting fiber of my being

And even when I run, the roundabout circles back

And even when I cry, nothing changes the fact

Not once does the leash you hold minutely slack

I'm forced to stare outside, watching my circling tracks

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

It won't in the face of your final threat

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

There's nothing wrong to you I bet

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

Never cared what I wanted yet I'm in your debt

Blood red string, burnt, frayed yet intact

Magnetically locked hopeless and wishing I was dead

You'd do this all again, I bet