Side effects follow but you'd never know

Dizzy and numb, I lost control

Day after day, you hid behind the dark

The world I built you tried to tear apart

You left me alone for dead

The coffin buried inside your head

Thought I'd never escape what's said

But now you spoke too soon

For all the chaos, for all the time lost

It wasn't worth the cost

Why did I fight so hard for you?

Under the surface, all the abuse

Why did I try so hard to prove

What's killing you is killing me too?

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

You can't deny the truth

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

The side effect is you

The side effect is you

Deep within, underneath

You destroyed and I buried

The bitter pill no one sees

The cross of yours that I carried

The web you spun

You cannot outrun

For all the chaos, for all the time lost

You weren't worth the cost

Why did I fight so hard for you?

Under the surface, all the abuse

Why did I try so hard to prove

What's killing you is killing me too?

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

You can't deny the truth

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

The side effect is you

Here's the web you spun, bad intentions can't run

Here's the web you spun, what's done is done

Why did I fight so hard for you?

Under the surface, all the abuse

Why did I try so hard to prove

What's killing you is killing me too?

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

You can't deny the truth

No matter what I say, no matter what I do

The side effect is you

The side effect is you

The side effect is you