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Like a thorn in your flesh

I am ripped from inside

As you bleed for the world to see

I am shame

I am rage

All the parts you contain

As you shove deeper down to hide



Peeling back the mask of my sanity

Terrified by the face I see

Choking back the tears and the misery

Only one survives inside of me

Never alone

You’re the dead inside of me

Face is not your own

We’re one and the same

In the mirror’s gaze

(Never alone)

You’re the dead inside of me

Dead inside of me

Like a bone through your skin

Leaving insides exposed

As you plead for the pain to subside

You are weak

You are frail

Without me you will fail

And the wounds will not heal with time

Peeling back the mask of my sanity

Losing all sense of what used to be

Crashing down, the weight and the gravity

Only one survives inside of me

Never alone

You’re the dead inside of me

Face is not your own

We’re one and the same

In the mirror’s gaze

(Never alone)

You’re the dead inside of me

Never alone

You’re the dead inside of me

Face is not your own

We’re one and the same

In the mirror’s gaze

The dead inside of me

(Peeling back the mask of my sanity

Terrified by the face I see)

The dead inside of me

We’re one and the same

In the mirror’s gaze

(Never alone)

You’re the dead inside of me

Dead inside of me

Dead inside of me