Searched hard for you and your special ways.

These days, these days.

Spent all my time, learnt a killer’s art.

Took threats and abuse ‘till I’d learned the part.

Can you stay for these days?

These days, these days.

Used outward deception to get away,

Broken heart romance to make it pay.

These days, these days.

We’ll drift through it all, it’s the modern age.

Take care of it all now these debts are paid.

Can you stay for these days?

See my true reflection,

Cut off my own connections,

I can see life getting harder,

So sad is this sensation,

Reverse the situation,

I can’t see it getting better.

I’ll walk you through the heartbreak,

Show you all the out takes,

I can’t see it getting higher,

Systematically degraded,

Emotionally a scapegoat,

I can’t see it getting better.

Perverse and unrealistic,

Try to make it all stick,

I can’t see it getting better,

Hollow now, I’m burned out,

All I need to break out,

I can’t see life getting higher,

Love, life, makes you feel higher,

Love, of life, makes you feel higher,

Higher, higher, higher, higher,

Higher, higher, higher, higher,

Love of life, makes you feel higher.

Made the fatal mistake,

Like I did once before,

A tendency just to take,

Till the purpose turned sour,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love.

Yeah, the only mistake was that you ran away,

Avenues lined with trees, strangled words for the day,

Yeah, the only mistake, like I made once before,

Yeah, the only mistake, could have made it before.

Strain, take the strain, these days we love,

Strain, take the strain, these days we love.

And the only mistake, led to rumours unfound,

Led to pressures unknown, different feelings and sounds,

Yeah, the only mistake, like I made once before,

Yeah, the only mistake, could have made it before.

Asylums with doors open wide,

Where people had paid to see inside,

For entertainment they watch his body twist,

Behind his eyes he says, ‘I still exist’

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

In arenas he kills for a prize,

Wins a minute to add to his life.

But the sickness is drowned by cries for more,

Pray to God, make it quick, watch him fail.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

You’ll see the horrors of a faraway place,

Meet the architects of law face to face.

See mass murder on a scale you’ve never seen,

And all the ones who try hard to succeed.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

This is the way, step inside.

And I picked on the whims of a thousand or more,

Still pursuing the path that’s been buried for years,

All the dead wood from jungles and cities on fire,

Can’t replace or relate, can’t release or repair,

Take my hand and I’ll show you what was and will be.