Standard (EADGBE)

These baby secrets have grown into children

through dirty adolescence and now into manhood

I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key

but it made no difference still they travel with me

even though I killed them they'll haunt me and they'll help me

remember the lies in the shadows, practiced charades

my hands are an axe chopping at the roots

of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit

to cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce

another heart of lies, a house of haunted rooms

the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been

so distant and weak

dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"

and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water

tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken

salesman as he's rolling down the conveyer belt

the product is almost ready to be shipped out the door

out into the world to make a living

selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em

to forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades

the enemy will make sure the ties on straight

cause it's always best to make an impression of wealth

no matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface

"I love you" spills like vomit from her lips

the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been

so distant and weak

dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"

and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water

water

I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key

water

forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me