Across the lines Who would dare to go Under the bridge Over the tracks That separates whites from blacks Choose sides Run for your life Tonight the riots begin On the back streets of America

Mass hallucination baby Ill education baby Want to reconnect with your elations This is your station baby But what am I supposed to do The good kid, m.A.A.d. city Look inside these walls and you see them having withdrawals Of a prisoner on his way

We have heard the chimes at midnight Into the void I go Will I ever see your face again Or will blank be all I know Arriving inside Ire hurts a life I saw the mountain crumble down I saw colossus in flames I heard the ocean draining

Outside the soundness of your mind Bathing your soul in silver tears Beneath a blackened summer sky Praying for time to disappear Chase the water racing from the sky

Why am I here? Because you invited me I can't help for your insecurity You can't hide it from me cause I'm inside of you I took it from you because your a freak show Its inside you

Lose yourself from playing games Why don't you lose yourself for me So why don't you lose yourself for me What is it that your eyes don't see Ho ho ho hoo Ho ho hoo hoo There's a life outside I didn't know Tied up, falling down to an empty soul And lord

That I'm losing control Trapped inside your broken world While I'm playing the victim again Running in circles To me it's all the same And though nothing's gonna change I hope someday you have it all Wait how long would you wait Just for me to call

I never should have told you I never should have let you see inside Don't want it troubling in your mind Won't you let it be And I could easily lose my mind The way you kiss me will work each time Pulling me back into the flames And I'm burning up again,

Violence is now a way of life The sledge my tool to torture As it pounds down on your forehead There's something inside me It's, it's coming out I feel like killing you Let loose the anger, held back too long My blood runs cold Through my anatomy, dwells

You only know how to fly And I've made the same mistakes But I won't this time No I won't this time You're a pretty butterfly You keep on passing by You never land inside my hands Your home is in the sky And there's a lesson waiting to be learned