The Serpent

Try to fix me, after breaking my skin

And run your mouth till you turn everyone against me

Keep me here, keep me chained to the wall, keep me

Stuck in a fissure with scissors to cut my thoughts

Give me solace in hell, then you solicit my property

Say you want more, rip it off of me

I was prey and you were waiting to bite

My back is chained to the wall with a knife

Why do I wait for the return of a snake?

Why am I here? I have the means to escape

How come after bending so far you won't break?

Seven years, seven months, throw it down in the drain

Give me your envy

I’ll drink the poison straight from the chalice

Swallow my malice

Right down the hatch like the snake you are

Always sick of giving in, human embodiment of Ritalin

A cheap high to get me by for a little bit

A false sign, or a facade, or an ambition?

All I know is that the buzz is so addictive

So vindictive, so much anger, no description

Living out a role inside your fiction

I wanna cut a hole in my heart and watch you crawl out your nest

I wanna sew it together and feel you bind to my neck

Now constrict me

Throw me into a cell and give me hell for a probable cause

Self-contradicting

Your own moral beliefs, sink your teeth into my vulnerable arm

Give me your envy

I’ll drink the poison straight from the chalice

Swallow my malice

Right down the hatch like the snake you are

Forget it now that all the feeling’s taken over

I should’ve known what it brought when I cut you off

Your silhouette I always see in my dreams

And now I can’t sleep from the suffering it brings

Carved your face into the back of my head

Knowing that you would never be the one to cut it off instead

I’ve got a narrow mind, you’ve got a shallow heart

You’re just a piece of the past, time came and ripped it apart

Give me your envy

I’ll drink the poison straight from the chalice

Swallow my malice

Right down the hatch like the snake you are

Darling don’t go, you’re all I’ve ever known

Darling don’t go

Darling don’t go