Favorite Effigy...
Beat me until I bleed, and choke me until my breath is no longer.
Torture me with wicked intent, and feed on my pain...does it make you feel stronger?
Rip through the flesh and leave me exposed so carelessly.
My wounds, my blood, my torment, your ecstasy. String them closed to extend it endlessly. My place as where it should always be. A puppet, a toy, a worthless effigy.
A scapegoat for the darkness that hides within your soul. Sustaining yourself with that illusion of control. Let me bleed, let me die, and welcome this silence it is I seek.
But you would never let me go would you, would your world end up so bleak? Without the drug, the sting, the pain, that makes you real. The translucent happiness you seem to feel. All gone as broken as you are inside. For though I am in ruin...without me you aren't far behind.
Torture me with wicked intent, and feed on my pain...does it make you feel stronger?
Rip through the flesh and leave me exposed so carelessly.
My wounds, my blood, my torment, your ecstasy. String them closed to extend it endlessly. My place as where it should always be. A puppet, a toy, a worthless effigy.
A scapegoat for the darkness that hides within your soul. Sustaining yourself with that illusion of control. Let me bleed, let me die, and welcome this silence it is I seek.
But you would never let me go would you, would your world end up so bleak? Without the drug, the sting, the pain, that makes you real. The translucent happiness you seem to feel. All gone as broken as you are inside. For though I am in ruin...without me you aren't far behind.