The image of a crying clown
Smile painted on my frown
My laughter hides my pain inside
The agony that all this life
Has made it perfectly explicit
Will forever be a presence
But it does not lead the way
This is my night, this is my day
I take my pain, I take my fear
I take my sadness and my doubt
I take it to the stage
Crowds of people, laughing crying
No idea I’m slowly dying
Eating away at my mind
Ripping at my heart inside
Screaming like a banshee, haunting
Sneered at by my own reflection
Darkness silences the mirror
No more giving into jeers
I take my pain, I take my fear
I take my sadness and my doubt
I take it to the stage
Self-loathing, self-hating
Take it to the stage
Fear about my future
I take it to the stage
How the world is crashing down
Bodies scattered all around
Crying, dying, tempers rising
Everything that makes me sigh and
Everything that gets to me
Pisses me off constantly
Anything that comes to mind
I take it to the stage
credits
from Piece of Mind,
released December 22, 2014
Produced by: TCW
Recorded at ETHQ Studios in Columbia, SC
Property of Eventide Entertainment
Album Art by: Robert F. Yetter III
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