10 Years and a Day

Don't go and try to get me started now With all the pages from the shameless faces racing to complain The tricks of lesser fools won't trip me now With all I've seen I can't believe you would repeat their scripture I've known you 10 Years and a Day But the fiction, their depiction of the lies won't go away You've called me things I wouldn't say paint a story of the real me but I guess that that's okay I'll try to fight And one day you will see that the narrative you read Ain't true Don't go and try to justify yourself To all the rejects, mental defects that they have no right to claim You know that deep down if you wanted to With all I've seen, I do believe that you can rise above them I've known you 10 Years and a Day Through addiction, a predilection for the faux sincerity I've called you things I wouldn't say And I'm sorry, but you bore me with the games you like to play I'll try to make things right And I can promise you That with a little time, you'll change your paradigm And you'll catalyze the compromises all of us must make Criticize the centralized destruction of the state Of being individual, the hive that you forsake Realize, that creed aside, we're practically the same I'll try to fight For the freedom you mistake suppositional today The foundation you'd erase for the sake of the snakes and shrews Well now you've gone and got me started now And I regret I never bet on such an unexpected change I'll keep on trying not to worry now About the worst in store, cuz I adore your self-inflicted rage So call me selfish, call me what you will Cuz in the end, it's you my friend Who has their self to blame again