American X

Close your eyes to the world that you see

And open wide to the one in your dreams

There's nothing left that you wanna believe

Foreign eyes have been torn at the seams

You'd save yourself from a world without sin

You're born again with a means to an end

Drawing lines in the palm of your hand

You're holding on to all that you've planned

There's nothing here that is left to be saved

Take a bow to the warrior state

You throw yourself to the perilous static

You shut your eyes but the death is romantic

You've sold your soul but it's only a fake

You'd kill yourself for a piece of the take

You lose your mind in a world that leaves nothing

You're holding on for asylum, reaching for air

It's all you want

You know you'll never forget

Your open arms

They only seem to surrender all

It's all you know

You know you'll never regret

Your open arms

They only seem to surrender all that matters

No one needs what they think to survive

Pulled inside with an appetite blind

You feast your eyes on American sex

You sleep in shores of American bliss

Growing wings from the sorrowless excess

Your frozen eyes cut the chord to their last depth

You share your young with the wolves of a nation

There's nothing left 'til you pray for salvation

It's all you want

You know you'll never forget

Your open arms

They only seem to surrender all that matters

It's all you know

You know you'll never regret

Your open arms

They only seem to surrender all that matters

I'm the last of the messiahs

All your lost star signs