you ve laid down the weapons you still spread the disease and now you ve made commitments you couldn t possibly keep you love playing the victim you love the sympathy and in your place of solace there s never honesty something i need to tell them not that it would change their minds you polished your reputation they ve never seen the other side take off your mask your faded design break off the chains your cross to bear shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere you ve carved trust in your forehead you crave the people to see how you can open up their vaults with your skeleton key nothing that you could tell me the past could never change my mind you built up my expectations and let me down every time take off your mask your faded design break off the chains your cross to bear shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere take off your mask your faded design break off the chains your cross to bear shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere this year you ve stolen has broken all my fixtures these words i m reading paint a thousand pictures take off your mask you re hiding behind shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere take off your mask your faded design break off the chains your cross to bear shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere stop hiding with your cross to bear shake off the demons left in your mind you take them everywhere