The phoenix, he helped create

Out of control, boy without a dad

Shot the gun that startled my life

While I drove him with a forty-five



Friends for years, images in red

Blew off his own motherfucking head

Confidence, dreams, insecurity

Men fall unrealized

Unrealized, unrealized



Making a decision of death

While everyone around you plead

Now you fly in peace

I hope, my friend

A man can't avoid what he's meant to do

When he's meant to do it

Even if he doesn't really want to



My memories are of fun and friendship

Of weakness within the strength of youth

For reasons undefined, reasons undefined

Reasons undefined, reasons undefined



Friends for years, images in red

Blew off his own motherfucking head

Confidence, dreams, insecurity

Your men fall unrealized



Don't you realize that evil

Lives in a motherfucking skin

Don't you realize that evil

Lives in a motherfucking skin

Don't you realize that evil

Lives in a motherfucking skin

Don't you realize that evil

Lives in the skin



Don't you realize that evil

Lives in a motherfucking skin

Don't you realize that evil

Lives in a motherfucking skin



Why the fuck did you take him away from us?

You motherfucker!



SONG MEANING: This is about a close friend of Serj Tankian's who died.