White Elephant

I wasn't laughing when it all occurred
Now I think it's a goddamn joke
Once a prize but now a burden
The beast you don't provoke

Yet you don’t ever listen
Slowly I descend into madness
The laughing stock of a despicable kind

Hope one day you can feel what it does
'Cause I feel that it's alive
Never thought I would kneel to the cause
Without knowing if I could survive

Don't know if I'd survive

What's wrong with a little delusion?
A precious gift to the everyday man
Have you thought about walking the clouds?
If you haven't you might just take the fall

Yet you don’t ever listen
Slowly I descend into madness
The scapegoat of a treacherous kind

Hope one day you can feel what it does
'Cause I feel that it's alive
Never thought I would kneel to the cause
Without knowing if I could survive

Dig my grave if I can't be myself in here

I was a problem, I was a joke to you
There was not much about it all that I could do
Cut my chest open and carry it inside
The heartless pinnacle of everyday life

A lesson lived is a lesson learned
Yet you left me with nothing left to live for
Me, the weakest must survive among the fittest
With a daily bucket of dirt getting swinged right at my face
Now dirt is all that's left for you to fucking hate, yeah
Loud mouth and a pretty face
When you think it all matters at the end of the day
You'd be surprised how many more of us there's left to hate
Try lifting our spirits through the words we scream out loud

Hope one day you can feel what it does
'Cause I feel that it's alive
Never thought I would kneel to the cause
Without knowing if I could survive

Here’s to days we can feel what it does
No need to pretend or hide
Never thought I would kneel to the cause
Without knowing that I could survive