Tranquilizer

[Intro]
The average of life and death
Is worse than either one of them
Nothing ventured nothing gained
I’m trapped here in this purgatory

[Verse 1]
Take the pill, treat the sickness
Open up, you can do this
Fade to grey, greet the numbness
Show me underneath your tongue
The paranoia washed away
And what is left to take it’s place?
Just a void; an empty space
Here we are

In this place, there’s no sound
It’s like your mind is upside down
Time just slips out of your hands
But then you start to understand
That the bottled up hysteria
Has nowhere else to go

[Chorus]
How am I supposed to feel
In the face of a tragedy?
I put up a fight but I feel nothing anymore
You have taken the life from me

It’s not about how I feel
It’s about how to handle me
Try as you might, you cannot fix this anymore
I’m not broken I’m incomplete

[Verse 2]
You painted over blemishes
That make me who I am
But no matter how hard you try
The skin begins to crack

The subtlety of life is lost
Among the walking dead
The bottled up hysteria
Has one place left to go

[Chorus 2]
How am I supposed to feel
In the face of a tragedy?
I put up a fight but I feel nothing anymore
You have taken the life from me

It’s not about how I feel
It’s about how to handle me
Try as you might, you cannot fix this anymore
I’m not broken I’m incomplete

[Bridge]
The innocence inside it speaks to us
Folding our emotions into cranes, and doves
I can’t even remember what I’m naturally like
I hope that I’m still here inside

[Chorus 3]
How am I supposed to feel
In the face of a tragedy?
I put up a fight but I feel nothing anymore
You have taken the life from me

It’s not about how I feel
It’s about how to handle me
Try as you might, you cannot fix this anymore
I’m not broken I’m incomplete