Stuff up my body
Mangle my skin
Chalk up my bones
I’m deader than him

You might think it’s wrong
But I get to decide
I’ll be dead by then
So cut me deep inside

Formaldehyde
What’s the downside?
Come out and hide
When’s the right time?

I’ll pay you a fortune
Hope it won’t cause you displeasure
It’s one man’s wish
Another man’s treasure

I’ll be dead by then
But it’s your job to remember
That I want to be known
As the taxidermy man

I’m falling behind
Slipping into lost space
I’m losing my mind
I cannot escape

I wish someone would pave the way
But they never do
I wish I’d have something to say
But I never do

I’ll drag them down with me
If no one will help me
I’ll bring them down with me
To a place they call hell

I’m a troubled man
With many fears
But falling behind
Seems the most dear

Everyone’s running
In this race we call life
They run their way retirement
While I walk backwards
Into primitive crimes

You’re someone that I never knew
Yet from what I’ve heard, you were you
You died before I was born
Yet the impact that you had was long overdue

I’ve only heard stories of what you have done
They say you're a winner but what have you won?
I’ll always believe that you were free
That you’ve passed it on to your son

I’ll never be the way you’d want me to be
And I know I’m still of my youth
And I’m not my best self
But I’ll try my best to tell the truth

I’ll pray for you

You are a killer
For you’ve done it yourself
You’re a sinner
For you target the self

You’ve completed your vision
At the cost of your own
What has it come to?
You’ve contorted your wealth

For the love of your family
They mourn and repent
Why didn’t you tell them
Until you were spent

Life is a prism
You said it yourself
But now that it’s broken
The light has been sent

Decapitate the truth at hand
Climb out from your own quicksand
Disconnect from all your morals
Become the sinner you reject

Acknowledge that you’re in too deep
There’s nothing left for you to see
Your severed soul falls to its knees
No ethical ways, just to receive

I can’t remember all your names
The victims of my mental games
I love the pleasure that I gain
I let their lives go up in flames

No consequence
And no remorse
To justify
The choice is yours

No more need for a redeemer
Some may say that I’m a dreamer
No more need for a redeemer
Some may say that I’m a dreamer

I’ll never be content
And I’ll never be happy
There’s nothing left of me
All but distant memories

I’ve reached a dead end
I’ve reached a terminal hault
Looking down at the abyss
There’s only one way out

I’m falling off the edge to an end
I’ve gone so far just to lead to dead-ends
Passing on to the unknown through liminal ways
All I can say is I never really wanted to stay

I don’t know what’s ahead
I don’t know what’s below
But one thing is for sure
I’ll be the one that goes

You act like a beetle
In a barn at some farm
Feeding off things
That I won’t recall

All memories lost
In a couple of years
Now all you know
Is living off fear

Some say you’re worthless
Some say in need
But all that I could do
Is nod in indeed

The worst insult of all
And nobody knows
What it could’ve meant
When you climbed up the walls

This may be cryptic
But there’s nothing here
In a thousand years
You’ll be yet a sneer