Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishments
And you're the master
And I am waiting for disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is
I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, getting away, getting away)

I drink my drink and I don't even want to
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to
I never look back 'cause I don't even want to
And I don't need to
Because I'm getting away with murder

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is
I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, getting away, getting away, getting away)
(Getting away, getting away, getting away, getting away, getting away with murder)

Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
What creates my own madness
And I'm addicted to your punishments
And you're the master
And I'm craving this disaster

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is
I'm getting away with murder
(Getting away, getting away, getting away)

I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is
I'm getting away with murder


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Getting Away With Murder Lyrics as written by Jacoby Shaddix David Buckner

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    Nice view malacai!

    I can totally see how this person is relating to himself. That he is punishing and abusing the very way he is.

    Two areas show me that this person is in a conflict of trying to understand himself. And he is slipping away.

    " take my drink and I don’t even want to I think my thoughts when I don’t even need to"

    "Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness I need to calculate what creates my own madness"

    I really like this line. It shows there is an amount of emotion from sadness to happiness that is driving him to the edge. And maybe the further he slips the more he is getting ready to kill himself.

    And the cold truth is (of course): im getting away with murder

    chino69on October 19, 2004   Link

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