The Cure

There's the future in the past and then there is the now
I was made for last, and I'll show you how
Things I take like this, nights that run straight through
A child wearing masks, no matter what I do
So peel the plastic back, an atrophied mind place
but not locked into black and not craving the taste

So tell me who are you to tell me what I do
I have found some peace, inside my quiet shell
A refuge and a blessing, a filthy lonely cell
I hope you understand while I know you never will
the cure's inside the curse, yeah it's not something you fill
The cure's inside the curse and the curse it is the cure
Nothing is mine, nothing is yours.

Lies are velvet soft, truth is sex like hate
Every time I cough, you know it feels like fate
Creep along my shoulder, dripping down my spine
Pushing down together, tarnishing the shine
another lesson learned and I'll never be ashamed
for though I may be burned there's purity in pain.

Cracked thick bottles and blowing up lines
Saying goodbye, time after time
You can call me sad, weak, pathetic, lost
But here I still remain, regardless of the cost

"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."