Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
I hear the words are spoken
I think my mind is broken
I keep on steady smokin'
Hopefully I die from chokin'
Know what I was just thinkin?
Maybe if I keep drinkin'
The voice will quit
And I can escape from this demon beacon
My life's a livin' Hell
Only the voice can tell
Oh please, oh Christ compell
Leave me from this evil spell
My body wont stop shakin'
These voices keep on makin'
Me do things to people
This must be just the work of Satan
They want my mind and soul
This shit is way out of control
I haven't been to sleep in weeks
I'm sweating, but my body's cold
I'm shakin' like a leaf
Terrified to go to sleep
Pukin' from the medication
Vital signs is lookin' weak
I see him in the mirror
He told me come inside
He lives inside my head
So there's nowhere to hide
They want my soul to die
So they can come alive
Possess my body
So everyone will realize
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
I take so many Zoloft's
I bleed my noise off
Run up in the church
And rip my fuckin' clothes off
The demon follows me
Right into the house of God
But then it swallows me
And takes me to the Lotus Pod
What can I do? When my brain shakes, my earth quakes
My lips crack, my skin dries up and flakes
Sleepless six days, and peep this
I pin my eyelids open with rusty paperclips
The demons coming for me
They wanna take my body
Hands reachin' up behind me
Suffocate the breath up out me
They squeeze my vocal cord
Until I wanna scream
Call upon the Dark Lord
Please wake from my dream!
I'm steady poppin' no-doze
I never wanna sleep
Mental pressure overcomes the brain
The evil creeps
Body shakes me out control
I need to pop another pill
Demons here to take my soul
Too late I need a refill
Spoken are the words
In the hymns of Pythona
Are the magic spells to unlock
The keys to the universe
It awaits, it will be summoned
By the petals of the Lotus
The night, the candles
Clean mind and soul shall invoke the power
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
I sit alone in the closet
So I can't hear what they said
I'm rocking back and forth
Helpless while it infests my head
My momma told me it would pass, it's been 17 days
The back of Tylenol bottles don't say shit about a soul raise
Tell me what the fuck I'm supposed to do now
Act how, go where, be with who, listen more to me or you?
Father tell me whenever will I be back to normal, never
I guess I'm cursed to live with this headache forever
I'm hearin' thoughts being whispered
Screamin' voices from inside of my mind
I wake up in a daze, blood and scars on my arms
I feel sick with someone elses memories
They beg me to kill everything I see
I got visions of nuns being raped
With the barrels of guns
A young lamb crucified for the fuck of it
It fills me, I can't sleep
I can't eat, I can't breathe, someone save me
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
I think my mind is broken
I keep on steady smokin'
Hopefully I die from chokin'
Know what I was just thinkin?
Maybe if I keep drinkin'
The voice will quit
And I can escape from this demon beacon
My life's a livin' Hell
Only the voice can tell
Oh please, oh Christ compell
Leave me from this evil spell
My body wont stop shakin'
These voices keep on makin'
Me do things to people
This must be just the work of Satan
They want my mind and soul
This shit is way out of control
I haven't been to sleep in weeks
I'm sweating, but my body's cold
I'm shakin' like a leaf
Terrified to go to sleep
Pukin' from the medication
Vital signs is lookin' weak
I see him in the mirror
He told me come inside
He lives inside my head
So there's nowhere to hide
They want my soul to die
So they can come alive
Possess my body
So everyone will realize
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
I take so many Zoloft's
I bleed my noise off
Run up in the church
And rip my fuckin' clothes off
The demon follows me
Right into the house of God
But then it swallows me
And takes me to the Lotus Pod
What can I do? When my brain shakes, my earth quakes
My lips crack, my skin dries up and flakes
Sleepless six days, and peep this
I pin my eyelids open with rusty paperclips
The demons coming for me
They wanna take my body
Hands reachin' up behind me
Suffocate the breath up out me
They squeeze my vocal cord
Until I wanna scream
Call upon the Dark Lord
Please wake from my dream!
I'm steady poppin' no-doze
I never wanna sleep
Mental pressure overcomes the brain
The evil creeps
Body shakes me out control
I need to pop another pill
Demons here to take my soul
Too late I need a refill
Spoken are the words
In the hymns of Pythona
Are the magic spells to unlock
The keys to the universe
It awaits, it will be summoned
By the petals of the Lotus
The night, the candles
Clean mind and soul shall invoke the power
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
I sit alone in the closet
So I can't hear what they said
I'm rocking back and forth
Helpless while it infests my head
My momma told me it would pass, it's been 17 days
The back of Tylenol bottles don't say shit about a soul raise
Tell me what the fuck I'm supposed to do now
Act how, go where, be with who, listen more to me or you?
Father tell me whenever will I be back to normal, never
I guess I'm cursed to live with this headache forever
I'm hearin' thoughts being whispered
Screamin' voices from inside of my mind
I wake up in a daze, blood and scars on my arms
I feel sick with someone elses memories
They beg me to kill everything I see
I got visions of nuns being raped
With the barrels of guns
A young lamb crucified for the fuck of it
It fills me, I can't sleep
I can't eat, I can't breathe, someone save me
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
They say they'll give me pain
They say they'll give me love
They say they'll make me bleed
They tell me up above
They take me down again
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Give me pain
Give me love
Make me bleed
Take me above
Take me down
This is my medicine
I'll cut the head off the Devil and I'll throw it at you
Lyrics submitted by nikuku
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