Deaf Ears

What if I make a conscious decision to break?
If I took all I could take?
What if it's too late?
Too many mistakes
Shame and disgrace
What if I was erased?
It's not heroic
It's not romantic
It's not poetic
Can't understand it
I'm scared
Tired of life
Can't speak truth if I'm breathing in lies
Dreaming their dreams
Screaming their screams
Murdered my muse
Now I'm unclean
Trapped in the death of a terrible dream
A prophecy
That I'm forced to see

Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence
Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence

(It's a sign!)

Paranoid
I'm under siege
Don't recognize what I've come to be
It's the disease of my generation
Isolated by mind mutations
So far gone that love can't save me
Reaching for God
But my faith is shaky
Lose myself in a fight that's not fair
Fight what's not there
Spiritual warfare
I was strong but still defenseless
Sound the alarm
There's a plot against us
Nothing left
No fight within me
I'm empty
Nothing is all I can be

Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence
Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence

(No one would have believed)
(In the last years of the nineteenth century)
(That human affairs were being watched)
(From the timeless worlds of space)
(No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized)
(As someone with a microscope studies creatures)
(That swarm and multiply in a drop of water)
(Few men even consider)
(The possibility of life on other planets)
(And yet, across the gulf of space)
(Minds immeasurably superior to ours)
(Regarded this Earth with envious eyes)
(And slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us)

Alien, demon parasites
Infect the mind and destroy your life
A breathing corpse, a shell of a person
Totally worthless, constantly hurting
How strange, to miss yourself
Like you vanished and left behind somebody else
These are the roots of suicide
I've seen the signs
It's a war on the mind
Outwardly fine but dead on the inside
God knows I tried, I tried
And they multiply, strategically
'Cause the more we sin, the more they breed

Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence
Deaf ears don't hear me screaming
Crying for help
But no one's listening
Crying for help
Fade into the distance
Crying for help
Fade out of existence

(It's a sign!)