The Mask (Stripped)

[Verse 1]

Well, I felt the burn

Since the day you departed and talked from the tomb

I'm still healing those wounds

And it holds me down

But made me a man that says

"Fuck all those rules, I will be who I choose"

It's a lonely road

With one grip on several psalms and one grip on the gun

And it holds the rope

That spins me in circles and dizzies my head

Then says, "Sleep when you're dead"

[Verse 2]

Were you ever here?

Or just lost on the surface that at the first touch just evades in the dust

And it pulls me down

Showed me my demons lined up in a sequence, forming a crowd

It was so long

With a piece of happy home that they stripped from the bone

I did not react

I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked back

[Instrumental]

[Bridge]

So, tell me what you know

I'm in deeper than I've ever been

I will never grow

While this anchor is chained to my feet

Tell me what you know

I'm in deeper than I've ever been

I will never grow

While this anchor is chained to my feet

[Outro]

Tell me what you know

I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked...

I will never grow

I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked...

Tell me what you know

I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked...

I will never grow

I settled my grievance by crafting a mask

And I never looked back