inherent by design and this skin only gets us so far it seems so out of reach and it's tearing me apart constructed limitations take the strength to carry on admit it to my mind but I can't tell my heart head in my hands
and the silence wishes to speak burned by my beliefs as they're taken from me scarred by my fears and the ladder's breaking I disguise the lies I tell myself cause in her eyes manipulations die and I fall attempting to grasp at this standing as a testament of the obvious surrounded by sorrow I'm drowning in hopeless feelings of doubt
my status carries more clout than my knife with all that's possible in my arms
I see how if fails