Underneath the mask you've buried yourself into
It's coal-black
I am tired of the gulping that you do
Every day a new face
What if i unscrew
Your own identity
Wouldn't you guess there's nothing left of you?

The quicksand of life drags us
Down into the circle
One day. we might not catch you

I feel sorry for what you try to do
Breaking others down. to try and to pursue
Your own selfish interests
I am starting to get sick of you

Whatever happened ever since you left
You make yourself and me look like fools


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    I think this is about someone who's dead to the world, from the perspective of someone who knows them by acquiantance. This person is always criticising, always finding something wrong with the people they see, but really, underneath the mask they put on, they are nothing. If they aren't able to criticise someone, there's nothing too them. The narrator despises them, but pities them all the same.

    I have no clue what the last two lines would mean compared to my interpretation...

    LaDiabloon September 17, 2004   Link

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