We used to be friends What have I become to you I don't understand Turn it backwards For me to hurt When everything else is fading We used to be inner circle Take my good word Turn your back on me

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

We must look past Control is dead in this blind world For we do what we hate Split from inside Betrayed by emotion What is in front of us Shadows are security They have become the solace Of my looking glass heart In search for certainty

What have I done? Sweet Jesus, what have I done? Become a thief in the night Become a dog on the run Have I fallen so far And is the hour so late That nothing remains but the cry of my hate The cries in the dark that nobody hears Here where I stand at

This is a step towards tomorrow A director's cut, never seen the daylight An initiated Armageddon So close to define The truth of what we will become A covert deceiving begun What you have to sacrifice One world, illusion's contradiction We blindfold our

We used to be friends What have I become to you I don't understand Turn it backwards For me to hurt When everything else is fading We used to be inner circle Take my good word Turn your back on me

What have I become My sweetest friend Everyone I know Goes away in the end And you could have it all My empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I hurt myself today

We used to be friends What have I become to you I don't understand Turn it backwards For me to hurt When everything else is fading We used to be inner circle Take my good word Turn your back on me

And we believe it's not the real me I can't control myself So what if you can see the darkest side of me? Somebody help me tame this animal I can't escape this hell Somebody get me through this nightmare No one would ever change this animal I have become

We used to be friends What have I become to you I don't understand Turn it backwards For me to hurt When everything else is fading We used to be inner circle Take my good word Turn your back on me