Everything is dark,
everybody’s here,
all I gotta do is get the words right
when the microphone is near.
Shoot off all my thoughts,
maybe make it rhyme,
try to be as honest with myself to them
without committing the crime.
I know that I can’t put it the way
that a better-read person could do,
so I sacrifice my talent for the truth.

So let it burn, let it fall,
let it drain the blood from my legs as I crawl.
And let it circulate right through a vein
that’s never gonna rupture when I fall.

Everybody screams,
then everybody stops.
I just wanna have a little moment when the silence gets me off.
Let me say my peace,
get out of your hair.
All I wanted was to be the backrest
on your broken, hopeless chair.
And I know that the living are lifeless,
and if the doctors could euthanize half of the things
that make me become the person that I hate...

So let it burn, let it fall,
let it drain the blood from my legs as I crawl.
And let it circulate right through a vein
that’s never gonna rupture when I fall.

Everything is dark,
everybody’s here,
all I gotta do is get the words right
when the microphone is near.