All I know is pain,
and I breathe it like the air.
The voices cry relentlessly,
but frankly, I don't care.
I try to shut them all away,
to put them all aside.
There's no way I can run from them,
there's just nowhere to hide.
All I know is pain,
and I see it in my eyes.
I look into the mirror
and it takes me by surprise.
The person looking back,
she doesn't look like me at all.
How can I know all that I know
and still be standing tall?
How can I still fill up my lungs
and go on with my day?
I'd rather fill them up with tar,
and burn myself away.
Instead I fight,
put on a mask,
no matter what they say.
Cause pain is all I've ever known,
I'll smile anyway.
This constant battle, every day,
it blinds me when I see,
the person I've been up against
was no one else but me.
Don't try to open up to me,
you wouldn't understand.
The words you say won't make me change,
so please just hold my hand.
I know what's wrong and know it well,
'cause wrong is all I know.
No, I don't want your cheap advice,
if you stay, that must go.
I've heard it all before, you know,
there's nothing more to say.
So please just hold my hand instead.
Please, just for today.
But careful, don't you get too close,
my heart's an empty void.
You'll get ****** in the nothingness
that i'm still trying to avoid.
Pain is all i've ever known,
and that's how it will stay.
Cause even though it hurts me so,
It's what's kept me alive to this day.