Box of Faces

I walk down a crowded street full of people Just living their lives, trying to hide from the evil That lurks nearby But there's a church nearby I see the shadow of a steeple And that there is the cross I bear For my sins, God gives me that cross I bear It's not a win, it's a loss, I swear I'm ready to give in and toss my flair Cause I'm running out of options Keep making wrong decisions and it don't look like it's stopping I used to be a free spirit just like Janis Joplin My motherboard is fried, can't remember how to log in No, I'm headed down the center of a rabbit hole And if I'm lucky, I will never find my way back home I'm better off gone If I'm gonna be a chess piece Don't wanna be a pawn In this game called life, it's probably best you move on Cause I have so many demons that I have to prove wrong Life will take you under if you let it So don't wonder if you'll get it Just do you and don't regret it There's a balance, don't upset it Every challenge, just accept it As a way to gain some credit For your life, just don't expect it Gotta work for every second Check yourself before you wreck it Check your wealth before you're naked Check your health before you're dead And ask for help, just don't expect it Move in stealth and resurrect it Never let them shelf your message Get it out and never let it go unheard before you exit I move at the speed of a cheetah Not talking about infidelity either No, when I bring it, I'm bringing the ether Now I need a breather I'm drowning in an ocean of thoughts in my head And visions of the future when I'm in my bed We wake up with the rooster and do it all again If time is currency, then we don't have enough to spend That's why we gotta make friends and make plans and Take trips, fly away in spaceships A cat stuck in a glitch, we live in the matrix If I'm on your playlist, I'm just glad I made it Cause when we're broken, we get wasted The taste of defeat, you can really taste it Sometimes we don't wanna deal with what we're faced with So we numb the pain, so we don't have to face it I had to numb my own, so I took it to the basics And got so high when I heard that snare and bass kick Everybody comes with a different box of faces They put a new one on when they go to different places Life will take you under if you let it So don't wonder if you'll get it Just do you and don't regret it There's a balance, don't upset it Every challenge, just accept it As a way to gain some credit For your life, just don't expect it Gotta work for every second Check yourself before you wreck it Check your wealth before you're naked Check your health before you're dead And ask for help, just don't expect it Move in stealth and resurrect it Never let them shelf your message Get it out and never let it go unheard before you exit