Skin Deep

[Verse 1]
It's like a broken record stuck on repeat
Waiting for the shallow seas to recede
Tryna succeed in killing off the ego
Dying to lead
Never will I follow her into the lioness keep
She swallows any chance in my heart to believe
Suffocates my reasons to breathe
There's no space in these departure debriefs
RIP to the me that starts to be free
Once she got a sheet of dеcreed release
Thе other half of my peace started to freeze
Paralyzed by fear
Bred by centuries of deceased
Swept in the eugenicist breeze
Carried me to where I’m meant to be sieged
Genetic disease
Call it alcoholic, I just say it's the gene
Devolving me into a parabolic bodily scene
Welcome to the jungle of heresy dreams
And as ill as it seems there's still a part of me that dares to be seen
As more than just an object in this parody scheme

[Hook]
It’s hard to remember what we look like inside our minds
Far from the envious masks we hide behind

Do you ever notice the scars we keep tucked beneath our eyes at night?
Do you ever know why our subconscious creeps out?
It screams in fright

[Verse 2]
There's something missing in the way that she grins
It’s making me cringe
Hinging on the edge of realism and fringe
It makes me sad that we'll never be friends
‘cause I am her worst enemy
Conspire for her ending
Her reflection’s a medley of pieces stitched together by a desire to be friendly
But it’s only a glimpse
See the ego’s only hot air in the loneliest blimps
I’m feeble in my trials but they're only attempts to get beneath the surface with the glowing of fish
Even with the rowing of simps
This boat can never go ashore
So this stream is just where we will sit
Waiting for a tug from the going against
Minnow bite the hate bait knowing who wins
Fear feeds anger and it's turning within
‘cause the love I had for her, well, it died with my sins
And now my heart is just a grave decorated with pens

[Hook]
It’s hard to remember what we look like inside our minds
Far from the envious masks we hide behind

Do you ever notice the scars we keep tucked beneath our eyes at night?
Do you ever know why our subconscious creeps out?
It screams in fright

[Verse 3]
Yo, tell me what you seeing ’cause I don't see it
And tell me who you want me to be and I’ll be it
Deflect your self hatred like Manson
I’m your tourniquet
This inception is a nightmare
Dying alone, filled with regret
And still I upset the balance with my brain waves
These doors of perception finally opened
And these are strange days so stop judging me
We all stuck in the same space
Strip away the clothes, cars and red face
All you are is flesh and them bones
Like an Alice in Chains head case
Cut me down like Johnny Cash
But I’m walking tall
‘cause I heard ‘em say that finger might be pointed at Bliss
But the rest of ‘em gonna slap you up like a drunk Rick James, bitch
I’m dumb but I’m famous
That’s what they'll blame this zombie generation
When the celebs are on pain meds
What a cosmic joke and karma's at our throats, singing our tunes
But hope floats this murder she wrote while licking her wounds

[Hook]
It’s hard to remember what we look like inside our minds
Far from the envious masks we hide behind

Do you ever notice the scars we keep tucked beneath our eyes at night?
Do you ever know why our subconscious creeps out?
It screams in fright

No more worries, it’s skin deep
Only in our dreams, we will be free