Bind to me – keep me in the shadows of your life

Terrified – frightened I might step into the light

Drinking deep from wells of bitterness within your soul

Holding fast to self-deluding visions of control



You're convinced that when you're done and the day is through

The applause was just for you



Paranoid – jealousy is all you've come to know

Pettiness – make a friend into another foe



And now everything is done, and the day is through

Now there's no one left for you



Twist the blade inside of me and bleed me dry

'Cause there's nothing you can say to me to make things how they used to be again

I have built a better life without your lies – and I will not be broken



I don't need your blessing now

I don't need your fantasies

All your fictions don't sustain me anymore

Breaking bonds, I'm setting myself free



Blind to yourself and to see you pushed away

Empty-handed and alone now at the end of the day

All of your misguided claims are dead to me – did you think I'd let

You dictated everything that I could be?