Do you get all that you want till you mend?
Do you feel everything?
Want that. It's real.
Do you know what you've got? Hope is not what you need.
Do you know what I'm not? Everything you need.

Don't use me as your example for truth
Let me believe what I want you to
Let me go and go on to your homes
I'm not what you want. Oh wait. Should I give you a choice?

?

You are not controlling me anymore
You are not walking for the door
I will not be taken prisoner by such of you
Oh yes, you will. Maybe you'd prefer them?

I don't know if you've been told but
I'm not a very nice guy
I'll cut you up, spit you out, and then I'll go hide
See you don't want to mess with this
Because you're not my type
You're not up to level, you're not up to par,
And this is not your night.

Do you think you can please
Hold my other hand
Do you think you could ever be right?
Do you make sense, late at night?
I don't know and I don't care
What you say or what you wear
It's not my fault
I fought to fight
It's not my fault, do you?
It's not like I ought to do
I don't care as much as I used to
I don't care
I don't care

It's not up to me, I'm not your man
It's not up to me, please lend a hand
If you really want me, why don't you go outside
That's why I go down in the gutter every night
Just like you did when you died.

I don't think you know just how bad that could of felt.
If I would of had a heart
Instead of this bible, and this belt.
Do you think that you are running away with your life?
Do you know when you get caught, you won't make it right?
I won't think that you could even if you do
And if you think about what you do is right,
You stand
Corrected....Neglected....Abus ed....Misused.
Beaten, and stapled, and way down deep.
You don't have any clue what it's like for you.
You don't know anything about what you do.
You are not even close to being up to par.
So go turn around, go open up the door, and get inside your car
So far.....Away.....So far.....Away

Bet that didn't happen like it normally would.

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