I'm drowning in the pain Breaking down again Looking for a lifeline I've been looking for a lifeline For what seems like a lifetime Is there anybody out there? Can you pull me from this ocean of despair? When I was a boy I didn't care 'bout a thing

Life to lifeless Humanity cover me With the ashes of remembrance I will learn from this pain To eternity The cycle repeats I'll rebuild me There is no darkness without light to teach us of ourselves Death unfolds itself painfully

I'm drowning in the pain Breaking down again Looking for a lifeline Is there anybody out there? Can you pull me from this ocean of despair? When I was a boy I didn't care 'bout a thing It was me and this world and a broken dream

Life to lifeless Humanity cover me With the ashes of remembrance I will learn from this pain To eternity The cycle repeats I'll rebuild me There is no darkness without light to teach us of ourselves Death unfolds itself painfully

It comes in spades From a life of pain I don't care 'cause I don't give a fuck It tears a path right through me Both hands broken together Clenching fists cause the rage You stabbed me in the back over a sliver A feeling I have been betrayed A systematic

This weight is so unbearable caving my lungs All my life seems to be flashing in front of my eyes Run away from all the pain of life Ways of devotion turn to obsession open your eyes I want you to see what you've done to me crying out those eyes Bring my

My iron lung If you're frightened You can be frightened Faith, you're driving me away You do it everyday You don't mean it but it hurts like hell My brain says I'm receiving pain A lack of oxygen from my life support We're too young to fall asleep

Killing me softly with his song Strumming my pain with his fingers Singing my life with his words Telling my whole life with his words I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style And so I came to see him, to listen for a while And there he was,

I want to be free from this ball and chain and Be free from this life of pain and be free from this ball and chain I want to be free from you Sick and tired of being sick and tired So sick and tired of being sick and tired Woke up and I feel like shit I

Strength of the mind Before I lose control Who can raise you from the fall and save you? Only you Who can take the pain away and change you? Only you Looking back on the life that I lived What I leave behind Mistakes and memories serve to remind (they