Lose Your Sanity

Verse 1

Sinking slow inside this stale suburban stillness stacking sorrows

Sliding sideways through the silence snapping sanity to shambles

Scratched-up scripts and scattered systems spitting static-sounding sentences

Sedated senses strangled slowly so I skip the sentimental stuff

Scribbling sentences that signify a suicide I simulate

Slicing surgery through every syllable I string along

Somewhere south of sane I see the sunrise splitting sideways

Stumbling through submission staring straight into the staring sun

Shit I swear the staircase spins whenever I step steady

Slaughtered every softness so the sharp stuff seems seductive

Shattered shards of self-esteem I swallowed seventies of suffering

Sagging shoulders say enough and so I surrender to the sinking

Stubborn strangers seldom see the sickness sitting in my stomach

Swallowing the second chances stacked beside a stolen scripture

So I scribble self-portrait and I slash it with a scalpel

Step aside the storm inside and let the stillness take my number

Sick of saying sorry so I slip into the sleeping

Settled sessions settled scores and then I settled on the exit

Slowly server sockets shut and so the signal starts to sever

Single syllable of silence is the sweetest thing I send it

Still I praise the pressure that persuades me to continue

Something in the soreness seems so stupidly religious

Somewhere somebody's watching but they never seem to say it

So I shake the shivering and straighten out my shoulders

Selling off the suffering for a souvenir of slumber

Start the steady surgery and sever every single string