When color starts to fade everything you see is tainted grey

As hope drains from your veins

Fear will slowly take its place



Feel the charge rush down your spine

Every hair stands on end, in shock of your own mind

Lost in the sound of the pounding hearts

The wires have shorted, the circuits gone dark

All it takes is a spark



The masquerade

Is lit ablaze 

Surrounding me as fear consumes my soul



There's a maniac within, taking hold of me again

No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac



I'm a fucking maniac!



Scarlet drapes my eyes the phantom calls from deep inside

Revealing my disguise, the freak beneath has come alive

Suffering is all I'm wanting

You've been chosen for my haunting



The masquerade

Is lit ablaze 

Surrounding me as fear consumes my soul



There's a maniac within, taking hold of me again

No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac



I'm a maniac, a maniac, a maniac!



I am the bane of your existence

Feeble are all your attempts at resistance

Stealing your sanity, watching you rot

Just lying in wait, ready or not



Here I come!



You stare in the mirror and the evil you see 

Is the menace within you that you have set free

Unleashing the beast brings the freedom you seek

But there's no escaping maniacal me