Madness
I wake up to a murderer in the mirror
And a terrorist hidden under my skin
While everything I believe I'm about
Is killing me, poisoning me from within
There's nothing can hide the blood in my eyes
Or the stains of your hopes on my sins.
There's a rosary under my toothbrush
To keep the demons that plague me at bay
A Bible, a shotgun under my pillow
Bidding my soul thief stay far away.
There's a bloody knife staining my laundry
Yet I do not know why, I confess
Probably a clergical error
Corrected hastily under duress.
On the horizon, dark thoughts are looming
This prejudice is clouding my head
Safely inside while the bigotry's booming
I decide you'd be better off said
And lingering only in past tense and pictures.
I decide you'd be better off lead
Somewhere far away from your future
Closer to this freedom from life
Closer to the cause of this strife
The love of your wife, the edge of this knife.
I wake up a-screaming and rife
With the questions of what I've become
For the face in the mirror is still the same one.
Save me, oh save me, for I am undone.
