Darkness to cover up This accident of flesh and skin Darkness, black as her torn hair against his fist And the fibers underneath her fingernails Will tell us tales of the malconstructed legacies That shaped this tragedy From the darkness of early days Comes blueprints and designs For the darkness within each man To harden and to hide And to purge all signs of weakness To make men out of the boys To remove the perceived difference Between girls and our toys So break away They want you to be like them One of them Darkness to cloud your mind And make you forget To react as you are told You won't obey like them You won't obey like them And the enemies inside you Posing as your nature Trying to become you So break away They want you to be like them One of them So break away They want you to be like them One of them