Nein

Otep

My pain, my pride

these scars are mine



my pain, my pride

these scars are mine



i will tell you a story,

that's never been told



i will tell you a secret,

5 lifetimes old ...



my life has been a prison,

a labyrinth built beneath the mountain of tragedy.



i'm a stain on the cloth.

i'm just an after-thought.



but i

would die

for this ....



but through the veins of decay

i'll remain to betray



to live like caesar.

to die like jesus.



to build my own religion,

no gods, no laws



to celebrate pain

forsaken & ashamed



to watch them all,

crawl beneath us ...



on this bed of nails & regret

dying of fevers, betrayal, & sweat



i cry ...



[chorus]



my organs are rotting,

my enemies are plotting ...



i am made of pages

paragraphs & inspirations

paper girl, burn the world,

i pass the flame to you!!



murder

mayhem

hurt her

hate him



murder

mayhem

hurt her

hate him



murder mayhem

hurt her hate him



murder

mayhem

fuck her

slay them!!



[verse]



my pain, my pride

these scars are mine



my pain .....



my misery has been formulated

into an equation of nien



my sanity wrote

a suicide note

but one of us is illiterate

and the other ... is blind



my 1st act of treason

was picking up a pen



my 1st act of love

was finding myself again



the hardest thing to do

was standing up to you



now i'm off my knees

now you're begging me "please"



i'm the wound & the weapon

the fracture & the fist



[chorus]



my organs are rotting,

my enemies are plotting ...



i am made of pages

paragraphs & inspirations

paper girl, burn the world,

i pass t