Bottom (feat. Henry Rollins)

Tool

Compassion is broken now
My will is eroded now
Desire is broken now

It makes me feel ugly

On my knees and burning
My piss and moans are fuel and,
I set my head on fire
Smell my soul is burning

I'm broken
Looking up to see the enemy
And I've swallowed the poison you're feeding me,
But I survive on the poison you're feeding me

Leaving while you're

Guilt, fed
Hatred, fed
Weakness, fed

It makes me feel ugly

On my knees and burning
My piss and moans are fuel and,
I set my head on fire

Dead inside

Shit adds up
Shit adds up
Shit adds up
Shit adds up at the bottom

If I let you, you would make me destroy myself.
In order to survive you, I must first survive myself.
And I can sink no further, and I cannot forgive you.
There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you.
I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.
I'll use my mistakes against you.
There's no other choice.
Shameless now, nameless now, nothing now, no one now.
But my soul must be iron.
'Cause my fear is naked.
I'm naked and fearless.

And my fear is naked

Dead inside
Dead inside
Dead inside
Dead inside

Nameless now
Shameless now
Nothing now
No one now

Shit adds up
Shit adds up
Shit adds up
Shit adds as you see me,

Naked now
Fearless now
Naked now
Fearless now

Shit adds up it leaves me,

Dead inside
Dead inside
Dead inside
Dead inside

Hatred keeps me alive,
How could this keep me alive?
Weakness keeps me alive
Guilt keeps me alive at the bottom


Lyrics submitted by homicidal_loser x, edited by Mellow_Harsher, CasROCK96

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    The song about overcoming heroine addiction :/ the spoken part is very well written.

    Bwthooliganon July 13, 2010   Link

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