You Don't Know

While sun drenched blood-red hands hug suspects Drum-stretched skin grins back in a mugshot I pray sunshine lights paths of the once lost Mud-pressed steps lie intact by a dug plot Live pay-per-view of the paper cut militia Where they hate to love a winner if you make it out the trenches Flaming arrows came blazing down breaking our defenses But I can't complain I'm on a plane playing hard to get Watching rain rain wash away, pain and arsenic Walk of shame stayed weighted so I take it all in step Painting counterfeits on my countenance in vain to blend in crowds A mouth without an alphabet can't shout it from the mountain tips Bed of flowers head of matches catches till I'm left in black Birds of prey may peck in packs, my vertebrates a Jenga stack Peckinpah pecking paws inserting fangs in every hand The purple stained the exit bags and turned the bread to ash But you don't know Looked up to god but he jumped the shark and left me hell borne Maybe it was a mirage or a facade I fell for Asbestos in the head electric fences left the shell torn I'm spellbound, tell me how you turned the sky to foil now Let's burn the midnight oil turn the insides gold Learn to live like coal all the ghosts I know Lurking in my home perfect form When the part I cut looked just like red accordion My breath ammonia, each step reflects the mental loneliness Babylon tower heart is acid washed catatonic Static thoughts anaconda caws from the albatrosses They build you up before they cast the stones Place you in a grave then they dance upon it casting spells Past lives plastic shells and vampires detach themselves I'm in a world by myself I don't need your help Look at how the dreams all fell to pieces when you'd secret tell Your shallow ways drowned your deeper self But you don't know Costumes that are not decor Lost within a foggy world Monsters in the closet doors To talk to them I stomp the floor Morse code more skulls Ossuary's god-devoid I'm so wary god forbid I live in sin like martyrs were Hundred teeth all carnivore Puppeteers saw my bones One of me there's lots of them Know why you broke my heart before Dying's just a part of war Lies can seem too hard to form L'appel Du Vide I call to voids Sometimes I feel like Lobster Boy Soar away so ornate Coronate with sharpened thorns Captive by the schadenfreude Trapped inside the darkest sewers Starving like it's Yom Kippur Starving like it's kwashiorkor Drown me like I'm waterboard Get more than what you bargained for Faustian got your soul Down the street don't cross the road Godless souls don't count the sheep Know how to sleep in haunted homes You don't know where darkness forms Supernova stars is born One of me there's lots of when It rains it starts to pour But you don't know