Verse:

I'm locked inside a box and it's my fault, I took too much on

Wearing the weight of the world on my shoulders for too long, I was wrong

I thought that I could manage all the damage, trying to look strong

But I'm underneath the rubble trying to struggle, I'll be soon gone

A crushing wave of names come rushing to me laced in flames

Telling me if I don't save the day I'm the one to blame

We're all born with a purpose, seems I was born a servant

Or a Jester trying to juggle to prove that I ain't really worthless

It's taking it's toll on me, breaking me slowly

Creeping up into poetry, uncontrollably

Making me think that I'm a nobody, and now I start to doubt myself

I thought that I could truly be the one to save you, be the one who helped

Rid you of your cancerous problems, where are my manners, I'll solve them

I'm only one person and this kinda thing happens too often

But a friend in need is a friend indeed

So how the fuck can I turn away when you're begging on your hands and knees

Bridge:

It's an invisible visitor, similarly sinister

Faces formed of family and friends, I'm a prisoner

Locked in my dreams, I'm tied down with paralysis

In an imagination overload, so gimme your analysis

Chorus:

Break me, take me, everything I have

Every bone inside my body, snap them all in half

Leeches trying to creep inside, tearing me apart

I've given up, let them in, feed on my bitter heart

I'm empty, breaking, from troubles I keep taking

Problems that are not my own that weren't mine in the making

Feeling like a martyr, but I'm volatile and angry

I wish that I could block it out, my conscience just won't let me

Verse:

Can somebody come and loosen these harnesses

This joke's been taken too far, this is a cold display of heartlessness

I see visions, premonitions off in the distance

The decisions that I'll be forced to make crafted with such precision

The paths that I'm being made to take but they don't seem to listen

They just pick and choose at will and fill me with a negative disposition

I don't have a choice in what I witness, I can't change the channel

I'm simply rounded up into a pen and treated just like cattle

My knowledge of what's real and fake truly has been rattled

I've been saddled with surreal scenes and it seems I'm trying to paddle

Upstream in my dreams, I'm trying to see what it all means

But if I come clean, beg and plead, these fiends will break me

I know I'll always wake up, and the sun will always rise

But try telling yourself that bullshit when you're locked inside your mind

In the deepest darkest cracks where no one ever dares to venture

There's a sign painted in giant letters stating, "Do Not Enter"

Bridge:

This confusion is deluding, and diluting my reality

The streams are crossing over, I can't tell which one is fantasy

My sanity is dwindling, hanging by the thinnest string

My oh my, my own mind is truly such a bitter thing

Chorus:

Break me, take me, everything I have

Every bone inside my body, snap them all in half

Leeches trying to creep inside, tearing me apart

I've given up, let them in, feed on my bitter heart

I'm empty, breaking, from troubles I keep taking

Problems that are not my own that weren't mine in the making

Feeling like a martyr, but I'm volatile and angry

I wish that I could block it out, my conscience just won't let me

Middle 8:

I'm having nightmares about my friends killing themselves

Waking up in a cold sweat like a kid who keeps on pissing himself

I see those faces when I lie at night, I can't deny

The fact that when I wake I'm wiping tears out my fucking eyes

Looking in the mirror, wondering what the key is

The secret ingredient I seem to be replacing with a weakness

Seeping through the seams and spreading fear until I'm speechless

These leeches in my dreams won't stop ripping up the pieces

Chorus:

Break me, take me, everything I have

Every bone inside my body, snap them all in half

Leeches trying to creep inside, tearing me apart

I've given up, let them in, feed on my bitter heart

I'm empty, breaking, from troubles I keep taking

Problems that are not my own that weren't mine in the making

Feeling like a martyr, but I'm volatile and angry

I wish that I could block it out, my conscience just won't let me