Chains shackle me With truth I'm face to face Backed up in between A damp cage I remain In the cell of numb despair The chill engulfs my veins There's only one notion that I revere The only truth in life is pain It levels and crushes at its free will My doomed fate will soon be sealed Pain's invention, madness Preys behind my eyes Pain's invention, madness Now I realize Pain's invention, madness Though I'll not break free Pain's invention, madness Truth eternally Beyond my grasp is a life That I will never attain Happiness, joy, not in sight Supplanted by truth's dark reign Physical, mental agony shows Along which my life revolves Either you feel it, or you don't There are never lies involved Clutching to my abnormality Hand in hand with destiny Pain's invention, madness Preys behind my eyes Pain's invention, madness Now I realize Pain's invention, madness Though I'll not break free Pain's invention, madness Truth eternally When you are pumping full of life The one sensation that you have Can penetrate through love or hate Existence on a higher plane In d**h and life, both the domains Surrender totally to pain I slip and claw and scream It calls Leave me alone with me It yearns I'm bleeding from my brain It needs me I'm helpless, trapped behind Its walls Tearing apart my mind It burns Upon my naked soul It feeds Streams of consciousness fill the page As my nerve endings scream in rage Deliver me to the darkest age As DeSade sits at center stage My flesh is but a portal now To wisdom and truth I am avowed Pain's invention, madness Pain's invention, madness
Twisting through the door Am I nevermore? My breath I can feel Therefore I am real I've succumbed to there heinous sins And I'll never be forgiven Shackled and bound, my new life I've found And I've tasted the fruits forbidden I've craving more Of pain's overtures Liberation is near And I have nothing to fear In this journey of self-discovery I have found the keys to be set free In this wicked course, I've uncovered the force That will keep me vital eternally Pain's invention, madness The force that preys behind my eyes Pain's invention, madness upon me Pain's invention, madness It takes this long to realize Pain's invention, madness, has set me free Transcendency Of mere mortality Tortured infliction Is now my addiction Constant agony Has created me I am suffering Through this atrocity I'm not blind to what I might find Squirming way down deep inside my labyrinthine mind Inhibitions removed, replaced with scar tissue And I'm punished with blades of my lobotomizing suit I've sought this dream In its violent extreme Now my pleasure is clear Though the lesson's severee My will is strong, but I could be wrong This new doctrine for which I've been searching all along is The religion of truth through administration of pain The body only takes so much before it drives the mind insane As a matter of fact, my friend I've come to my bitter end It's not a torture rack I'm in Though I can still pretend It's a jacket of white with buckles and straps Not a pleasure device at all It keeps me safely under wraps While I'm chained to this padded wall hear my cries... you'll never know