Shattered Pieces

Otep

And this is how the world died

and this is how the world died



...i can hear you judging me.



[i'll hear your confession]

i found the best piece of me



[kneel down]

alone, shivering in the dark



[place your face between my thighs]

3 centimeters tall



[& talk to god...]

eating it's heart

.. but you will not feast on me today.



this is how the world died.



who will slay this thing?

[i forgive you]



who will play the butcher & end my suffering?

[i forgive you]



... i fucked the minds of the masses with the fingers of liberty.

this is not a threat. [this is not a threat]



i'm not perfect, i'm not a beauty queen, i'm just me.

[no one escapes this life alive]



we are all,

prisoners here.



[all shapes & sizes]



... i scream for all the women i've never been but i hoped i would be.

[i'm proud of who i am]



forever, chasing the sun.

[i'm proud of me]



... she bites her trembling mind.



it began as all tragedies do,

[forgive me, she's the one, forgive me]



with pain & deception.



... if you'll be the paper, i'll be the pen.

and this is it .. [i've tasted hell, & it tastes just like you]

my final plea.



no one is coming to save me.

no one is going to change things.



the answers will not drop from the sky.

i will not oneday wake with a different disguise.



the only solution ... is revolution.



[art is war ... fight, fight]

[[pain makes me safe]]



.. the odds were always against me.

[lose weight/clearly think]



i exist.

i am broken.



i exist.

i am broken.



.. if god is my father then i am an orphan.

i am broken.



i'm not a mistake

[my ancestry is a ghost story]



i'm a prophecy

[my love life is a crime scene]



i'm an omen

[my self-est