Rollins Band Album

I think you got a low self opinion man
I see you standing all by yourself
Unable to express the pain of your distress
You withdraw deeper inside
You alienate yourself,
And everybody else
They wonder what's on your mind
They got so tired of you
And your self ridicule
They wrote you off and left you behind

You sleep alone at night
You never wonder why
All this bitterness wells up inside you
You always victimize
So you can criticize yourself
And all those around you

The hatred you project
Does nothing to protect you
You leave yourself so exposed
You want to open up
When someone says
Lighten up
You find all your doors closed
Get yourself a break from self rejection
Try some introspection
And you just might find
It's not so bad and anyway
At the end of the day
All you have is yourself and your mind

You sleep alone at night
You never wonder why
All this bitterness wells up inside you
You always victimize
So you can criticize yourself
And all those around you

The self hatred that blinds you
Binds you grinds you keeps you down
The world falls down around you
You build up walls around you
You wear disgust like a crown

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you seeing me
You'd see yourself so differently
Believe me

I know the self doubt that runs inside your mind
I know the self doubt that treats you so unkind

If you could see the you that I see
When I see you
You would see things differently
I assure you

See me – put yourself in my place
Be me – put my eyes in your face
Maybe then you'll see why this place terrifies me
And why I've got to get myself away
So hard to deal with the ones who can't feel
They continually blow my mind

No need – I've burned enough times myself
You're like me – sometimes you scare yourself
The things that you think
and the way that you feel
Makes you think you're all alone
When you go outside
And try to find a familiar mind
It really lets you know that you're on your own
So unknown

When those walls close in around you
When all about you doubt you
When the world can live without
Get a grip and keep it
You see how hard they'll shove you
Hat your guts and tell you they love you
Get a grip right now
You see how far you get pushed
How long they'll hold you down
Feed you lies
Drive you insane
Give you poison to kill your pain

Know me – I see the fear in your eyes
Pull back – there are some things to realize
So hard to deal with the ones who aren't real
It's unbelievable what they'll put you through
Twist you up inside
Filthify and punish your mind
You don't have to live like that
You've got to get your self respect
Jump back, get your self respect
You've got to jump back
Keep your self respect intact
You've got to keep it like that
Your self respect

The way you look at me
Is tearing me apart
And the way I make you feel
Is tearing you apart
And the things we磖e doing to each other
Is tearing us apart
Look at you and me, tearing each other apart
I don磘 mean to do it
You don磘 mean to do it
So we better stop it now
Because we磖e tearing each other apart

It磗 hard to be alone
But it磗 harder to be with you
I磎 a lying liar with my pants on fire
Tearing myself apart
Slamming down the phone right in your face
Tearing you apart
Whe I see you
I want to tell you
But then I lose the words

Better walk away
Before we crawl away
I磛e got a hole inside
And I keep it deep inside
And I磎 going to go inside
Because I磛e got to get away
To see if I磎 ok
Sometimes things don磘 work out
It tears you apart, it tears me apart
Sometimes happens all the time
And I磎 feeling torn apart

You turned me in and you burned me out
You pulled me in and you locked me out
Yuo ripped your feelings right across my back
You didn't see that I was bleeding
You turned away when I spoke to you
You looked away when I looked right thru you
You didn't need to do that to me

When I touched you
Did you feel it?
Did you ever feel anything at all?
Do you ever lie awake at night?
do you ever think of me?
I've got my arms wrapped around myself
You've got your arms around someone else
I try to tell myself
I'm not down

I didn't want it but I got it anyway
I didn't want it and I couldn't get away
I can't deny it
I miss you
Even though it hurts inside
I keep a lie alive

I wrack my brain trying to remember
Everything I said to you
I wreck my brain trying to dismember
Any part attached to you
I'm sorry I still feel this pain inside
It shows on my face like a scar
It's something I can't hide
Some people are better left alone
It hurts so much when you have nothing to say
It hurts so much to have to walk away

I looked deep into your eyes
Saw men lying broken
Shattered at the bottom of your well
You took their simple affection
Turned it into bad infection
Sent them packing straight to hell
I see waht sweats you
Reality threatens you
You can磘 hide yourself from me
When you see the one that sees thru you - It磗 me

Canine men
Fighting, lying, trying to be the one
That gets to feel your touch
I see them lined up like broken heroes
Spitting out pieces of their broken luck
I guess I磛e got good sense and hindsight
Because to me it never meant that much
When you see the one that laughs at you - It磗 me

Wasted time spent thinking about you
You know I磛e come to hate myself
Smahing my hands against the wall
Trying to forget the foolih way I felt
You磖e so kind when it serves you well
Your cruelty

No more trying
No more lying
No more messing around with my mind
I磎 going, I磎 gone

Because now I see you
You must think I磎 blind
When you need those arms around you
You won磘 find my arms around you

When you see the one that sees thru you
When you see the one that laughs at you - It磗 me

I磎 so confused
Can磘 find the line
Between what I use and abuse

So unreal
How I lie and try to deny
The things that I feel

I�?l love you and hate you both at the same time
Heal you and hurt you and laugh as you cry

Why I don磘 know
Right at you right in you
Right thru you right past you I go

Can磘 you see
First it磗 him then it磗 her
Then it磗 us then it磗 you
Then it磗 me

Misery, depression, elation all mine
Refine, confinement all my design

You and me
Pathetic we cling
We think that we磖e free

Ugly
You and me
You see, you see the real me

So obscene
Flapping wildly
You see what I mean

Keep away
Can磘 see why you do what you do
And say what you say

When no one will listen and time won't wait
When you see yourself and see the one that you hate
When the night lasts forever and times stands still
When you see yourself and want to kill
When the world doesn't fit the head on your shoulders
When you punch the walls and feel the world's fist
The big ideas you have leave you feeling so small
I can see it in your eyes you can't deal with it all

What do you do when you want to get over
What do you do when you want to get through
What do you do when you just can't take it
What do you do when you just can't fake it anymore

Feel the pressure
Feel it squeeze
The eyes in your head
The heart in your chest
Where's the answer
Where's the release
What do you do

When the lies that they told and the price that you paid
Force you to see the mistake that you made
When they shake your hand and stab your back
When frustration paints your four walls black
When they pick you up and let you fall
When you find their something is nothing at all
When ends miss ends and the endlessness sends you
Down to the bottom of the drain in pain
When you've pushed to the edge and can't maintain

They always pry
They always want to know why
And then they pull you in
And then you want to die

You'll burn so deep inside
And then it gets on top of you
It won't let you go
Believe me when I tell you
Life will not break your heart
It'll crush it

You never felt so good
You never felt so well
And then you open your heart right up
And say come on in
And then that's when you stop breathing, man
And the bleeding will never end

Heart smasher
Knives in your mind

You must think you磖e going to live forever
I listen to the lies as they fall from your face
You must think that you are mighty clever
Can磘 you find a better way to deal with this place

Watching your life die
We磖e all wathcing your life die
Your hands are wet - Your mouth is dry
You shake and sweat - You want to die
Your eyes are hot - Your skin is cold
You磖e so young - But you look so old

Lie in bed all day stering at the ceiling
Your friends come around
Because they wonder how you磖e feeling
You send them all away
Because you can磘 identify
They don磘 know you
They磖e not even high
So high

See the monkey磗 eyes
Look deep into the monkey磗 eyes as he comes to you smiling
Day after day the monkey磗 eyes become bigger and bigger
Soon the monkey磗 eyes are all you can see
Soon the monkey磗 eyes become your eyes
You feel the monkey磗 bite
Monkey see monkey do, monkey will destroy you

If I could make wishes true
I know what I磀 wish for you
Another life
Another life for you

I am the man from a human choke hold
I am the product of your restraint
I watched the years pass by me
Never once did I complain
Never once did I say no
Now I watch myself explode
My body is scarred by age
Now you get to taste my rage

From the wreckage of humiliation
I got my self respect
I pulled myself together
What the hell did you expect
You should see the pain I go thru
When I see myself I see you
Everything that you did I do
When I see myself I see you
Rage

I磎 just like you
My flesh isn磘 my flesh
My blood isn磘 my blood
I磎 just like you