This track speaks about a person who was supposedly born with Multiple Personality Disorder and of how the said person suffers due to this complication.
[Verse 1]
One mind divided into three
For every problem a personality
[Verse 2]
Each one trying to protect
For the crisis a person they'll select
With sorrow comes reassurance
With confusion there's ignorance
[Pre-Chorus]
Deny who they are
A fantasy gone too far
[Chorus]
Protecting the weak points of the mind
Defensive personalities
Violent one minute calm the next
Defensive personalities
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Passed down from generations
Years of pain and complications
[Verse 4]
Darkness was a punishment
Memories time cannot mend
Brutalized from the day of birth
To reality they can't return
[Pre-Chorus]
Existing in a world
Of three lives inside of one
[Chorus]
Protecting the weak points of the mind
Defensive personalities
Violent one minute calm the next
Defensive personalities
Defensive Personalities was written by Terry Butler & Chuck Schuldiner.
Defensive Personalities was produced by Eric Greif & Chuck Schuldiner.
Death released Defensive Personalities on Fri Feb 16 1990.