Puppeteer's Dance

It's more bitter than sweet When you lie through your teeth It puts the frustration right into me But I know that it's hard To rip myself apart From the truth and the way things are Cuz even if I did find a way To pull myself away You would get me to stay So in the end I'll never win Cuz I'm locked in a toxic dungeon In your hand I play at your command A victim of your tricks A puppeteer's dance A jewel in the eyes But poison in your heart No one sees the violence Behind our golden arch The strings that hold me up Are pulling me apart Playing out the trauma Forcing my part I feel like I'm not Even myself Nothings working Venting helps I don't know what to do With someone like you That can live with themselves Doing the things you do Puppeteer's dance I fall into your hands Puppeteer's dance Fall into Still playing my part For the ruler of the art Pressured by silence Don't let it look stark I try to get away But I'm held back by the truth This can't be what I need But I'm powerless to you The extremity of it all Can't be seen through eyes Because your control Derives from your lies Trapped inside your heart Is such a lonely place It's so fucking cold It's so fucking scathed I don't know what to do With someone like you That can live with themselves Doing the things you do Causing hell The way you do Making me Your fucking fool Puppeteer's dance I fall into your hands Puppeteer's dance Fall into But in this hell is your life's worth A worthless creature treating others like dirt But on these strings a toxic shock A death drop You leave me conscious Hanging by a fucking string Too scared to kill me yourself Too scared to die without me Cut the strings!