Back for the encore, I'll always come for it (I know you wanted it)

Death is at the door, I won't succumb to it (don't bother knockin' it)

I'm putting on a show, I hope my costume fits (call in all the kids)

It will be grandiose (like a narcissist)

I am anomalous in my robotic processes

I put the life in the party, but I'm the opposite

I look at my reflection and I'm one with it

Just like the depth of any mirror, there is none to it

Don't-don't-don't put your trust in me, you won't be comforted

Trust is an edge and I've been taught to cut with it

All for the leverage, I'll prop myself up with it

'Cause this is showbiz, so a showman's all you're gonna get

You might just find the skeletons I've closeted

What's inside the box? Break the lock right off of it

Take this rusty husk, dust the cobwebs off of it

My cover's slipping, yet I've simply come too far to quit

Behind this friendly facade, evil is dominant

Ego balloonin', impugnment ain't poppin' it

'Cause I'm the director, my actors are talentless

So let me control 'em, make sure no one is autonomous

Here comes a one-man marching band

See this army of puppets, I'm in charge of them

With a performance so electric, I'm conducting them

They wanted out, but now they've sprung another lock again

Look upon my face, I just adopted it

Familiar is the pain, I've come to foster it

To make me whole, I'll break your soul like a lobotomist

But on an atomic level, I'm the anatomic mess

My coffin is a walking grave, how preposterous

I'll lead a posthumous parade, so cacophonous

How pompous a display, did I say I'm a narcissist?

No wonder why I hate to stay anonymous

But I'm not dropping this charade 'til I've exhausted it

I keep the monster underneath, but he's prosperin'

I'm stronger in the darkness, what ironic confidence

The kind of artist who is carvin' out his audience

Is this all just a projection

Or another misdirection?

Don't we all want a distraction

From that which we have no protection?

Like your own reflection

Looking back from the other side

You thought you knew him, what a deception

Coming back for another bite if it's inhuman

No imperfection like a mask I pull off at night

My every movement beyond perception and all detection

Are you the real one or my reflection?

Red, his hands, and dead his eyes

Blueprints stained, it's our doom designed

With these gift-wrapped reveries, disguising lies

Time to tie the bow and then enlighten lives

I'm not a person, I'm just been impostin' him

Call me the big bad, I'm one more blow from bustin' in

'Cause I've been tryin' to warn you, a child cried wolf

But people are sheep, pulled their eyes behind wool

Studied sadistic psychopathy, got my doctorate

Buckle up 'cause I'm no longer inoperate

My precious puppet turned on me, and now I'm strung to it

But if you thought you stopped my heart, you put the jump in it

Nobody bother to scream, because I'll muffle it

You're stuck with us in here, just like we're stuffed in it

Look at what we've become, something amalgamous

If you don't wanna play your part, you will, 'cause I'll insist

I built a body count on hollow promises

I got a list of 'em, it's so long, it's almost bottomless

Sorta like Santa Claus, but I don't come with gifts

Nonetheless, once I find your line, I'm crossin' it

Just like a virus in your system, I've corrupted it

I kinda find it like a job, so when I'm punchin' in

I look forward to my shift, but when I'm off again

I'll rip off my skin because the job is all I am

Is a reflection

Comin' back from the other side

Your point of view is just a deception

Coming back for another bite to become human

I am pretendin' like a mask I pull off at night

My every movement gave you direction, then you forget them

Don't fight your demons, you must respect them

I'll make you need them, if not invent them

Now I'm the real one, you're the reflection