This establishment is terrified of everything
Anything that might make you
Open up and see that there is more than just one way
To live a life, to make a move

I dare you to take a stand they say
I dare you to resist abuse
For review perception makes up all reality
And their religion is the profit school

It’s no secret, there’s no future
Vices come in more shapes than a bottle of alcohol
It won’t heal if, there’s no sutures
You can be addicted to the scent of an afterthought
Some people live above the law
And some people can’t afford to ever get caught
So why try at all when you already know you’ve lost?

She only wants the things she knows she cannot have
She says it tastes the best when someone says you can’t
I try to do the right thing
I try to if I can
But more and more I’m finding
That’s hard to understand

Every piece of me
Is screaming for relief
I’d give it all
To make it stop
It turns out
That everything they ever told
Was just another lie to control
I might come back someday
But for now I just want to waste away

Just like that
Abandoned and locked away
Without a thought labeled a menace to society
Looked at like she’s some creature
Ripped straight from Jeepers Creepers

She feels this pressure all the time
The pain is always on her mind

Her dealer wears a white coat
And always has the perfect dose
He doesn’t make house calls
Business hours on the wall

This endless war has got to stop
We’re only fighting the symptoms
There has to be a deeper cause
For all this self medication

I reach in an attempt to find myself again
It’s then I know I am never coming back from this
Resist temptation
Here comes the tidal wave

Look down your nose and cast your shame
But you’ve got your own sick habits
Your addiction’s written on your grave
Your time spent throwing stones at glasses
You know you’ll always be this way
Exposing faults in others just to cover up your pain

Every piece of me
Is screaming for relief
I’d give it all
To make it stop
It turns out
That everything they ever told
Was just another lie to control
I might come back someday
But for now I just want to waste away

If I could find a way to turn back time
(To turn back time)
I’d fix it all I’d lead the perfect life
(The perfect life)
But these mistakes we make they do define
(They do define)
The line we draw between what’s wrong and right
What’s wrong and right?