Verse:

I'm cutting you out, whether it's for better or for worse

See you've outstayed your welcome, now the tables have turned

Because these puppet strings are funny things, they twist and they turn

They manipulate and situate and I feel the rope burn

Like a flame and I dance like the monkey I am

You can be betting that I'ma be begging the bastard all that I can

See, it's time to draw the line, I crave that peace of mind

I'm done with that venomous voice, so carefully poised until it's in time

My life is ever passing, I breathe but I keep gasping

Try to swim away, but there's a line that keeps casting

It hooks into my flesh, nails scratch across my chest

Screaming, "Without me, you're just like the rest

You're nothing, a shell, a shadow in the background

You're my project and I'm running things, best watch how you act now"

My mind's an open battlefield, it's the calm before the storm

But I'm face to face with the ultimatum that I've always been waiting for

Chorus:

Press the barrel of the gun to my temple

I'm hoping I can coax you out

Expect it to be slow and painful

Nobody's ever gonna hear you shout

I'm through with your messing

Cos you're not a blessing

I've gone and done figured you out

Cos that mask that you're wearing

Has started to tear

And I'm thinking that I've found my way out

Verse:

Dark and twisted, cannibalistic, never let them get the better of this kid

Push the knife in all you like, my fists are balled up ready to strike

It's like I'm wearing someone else's skin, I don't feel I belong in

A hazy phase of memories, scared of who I'm becoming

Did I just do that? Is that me? Why do I feel like I'm so incomplete

Looking inside of my eyes with no chance of denying there's something in me

That I can't explain, I don't know his name

He fucks things up and I'm taking the blame

Maybe I'm lacking control, man I really don't know, but I feel like I'm losing this game

I'm ashamed to open my mouth, in case the wrong words come out

Live as a fool, die as a clown, I don't even know what I'm talking about

I'm gonna be stopping this, gonna be chopping this doppelganger into pieces

I'll tear my fucking body apart, abort this twisted fetus

Until I'm free, standing tall above it all, until I'm me

Until I'm walking down the street, and I can be

Comfortable with who I am and I can speak

For myself without another person always trying to creep

Chorus (x2):

Press the barrel of the gun to my temple

I'm hoping I can coax you out

Expect it to be slow and painful

Nobody's ever gonna hear you shout

I'm through with your messing

Cos you're not a blessing

I've gone and done figured you out

Cos that mask that you're wearing

Has started to tear

And I'm thinking that I've found my way out