The Strip - MANIC

I've been spending most my nights on the edge
Wishing I could let you in, but you won't understand
Spent my days the past few years pinned in rid
The stress and the weight of the world
Changed the locks inside my head

All my life I've been living to die
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Over and over and over
Here's the show baby, step inside
Hands unsteady, hearts on fire
So put the lights up on me

The curtains close on another day
Everyone's been asking how I've been
But, I got nothing to say
I'm a cold dead hand steady gripping the past
And at the rate I'm going I'll never make it

All my life I've been living to die
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Over and over and over
Here's the show baby, step inside
Hands unsteady, hearts on fire
So put the lights up on me

Behind the veil of complacency
Solitude is all that remains
Revealing the grim shade of darkness
That defines the man behind the mask

Can't clear my head it's all a mess
I'd give it all for one more breath
Of air with a sign of hope
That would lift this hand from off my throat
So many masks change through time
Reflection glitches, blurring the line

I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess
I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess

I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess
I'm a mess, I'm a mess, I'm a mess

I'm a shell of a man picked clean by wolves
Fending for what's left

All my life I've been living to die
Buy the ticket, take the ride
Over and over and over
Here's the show baby, step inside
Hands unsteady, hearts on fire
So put the lights up on me

Written by:
ANTHONY MASCOLINO, CHAD GANNON

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