I am a human being, capable of doing terrible things. There's lightning striking all over the world. You people are mistaken if you think that I'm awake and celebrating anything that I've become. Hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey

There is no pain you are receding You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying I have become comfortably numb Hello? Hello? Hello? Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home?

What have we become? A farewell to arms I'll wave this flag of white So the avenged see the light We'll pay for closed eyes Before genocide Can you hear the cries? Nowhere the children run to hide Crimson rivers flow down hills, atone our ills

Something in the way Something in the way, yeah Underneath the bridge The tarp has sprung a leak And the animals I've trapped Have all become my pets And I'm living off of grass And the drippings from the ceiling

Just this once Listen to the words I say If you want I will I’m there until the end of time Always a stranger in a crowd You want someone to blame The one who drives the rusted nail But who’s left will never care Pretending becomes a chore

Curse the place From morning to night I stayed out of sight Didn't recognize what I'd become No more than alive I'd barely survive In a word, overrun Won't hear a sound From my mouth I've spent too long On the inside out

I've become so numb, I can't feel you there Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow I'm tired of being what you want me to be Become so tired, so much more aware By becoming this all I want to do Is be more like me and be less like you Every

Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife You just might miss your babies growing like mine did Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your

I've been waiting waiting waiting You help me lose my mind And you bring me something I can't define What I felt before Keep biding my time, How much longer? (What you've become) Help me lose my mind, make me wonder Who've I been waiting for

I burn away I beg you burn me away, I won't become your hero Just to fight the life I saved Burn me away, I won't give up tomorrow just to lose it all today My only consolation is all lies The apex of my consequence is dying here tonight Winter has