Lying here surrounded By the pieces of my life Would it all be easier If I lay me down to die Dreams piled high On the back of this broken man Is this all? Born to fall? Or to rise again? So much pain and disillusionment Everything I once felt sure about We're all lost if we don't know It's a game that we are all playing The motions of all our counterparts A piece of sinister scheme The puppet that's broken has reason to smile They can no longer force him to dance on their strings Why shrug off the chains? If you wrap them about You'll be sunk to the bottom and drowning The clockwork behind their smiles Wound by hands that were made to harm Just release yourself Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Seems so counter to our nature Accepting with grace the things we can't change But when all's said and done and you're wronged and decieved Then it matters the most what you choose to believe Should I fight against fate Or should I just lay down and die? Solos: Bernie, Nick The puppet that's broken has reason to smile But the strings can't contrl you if you walk away No more tears of disillusionment I'll be a puppet no longer The hands that I thought had held me The clockwork behind their smiles They'll not have control over me I'll stand up and leave them behind Just release yourself Cause they can't rape the willing Or take what you have if there's nothing else Tired of life and filled with despair And covered with blood from the crosses that I bear But I'm still standing Should I make myself crawl? Just release yourself From the scars you inflict on yourself When you're wounded by no one else Rise above pain, move past my despair And put down the cross that I've made myself bear Now I'm still standing And I'm not gonna crawl