Beneath the Mask - Anup Sastry, Andy Cizek

Now I wake with another face

Wounds seeping blood run down a pale complexion as I wonder

How I made such a mess of things

Struggling to recall a glimmer of a memory

So I lay in this shallow grave

With only vengeance to inspire me to live again

My disgrace has a peculiar name

Choking on noxious fumes, no more suffering in vain

I will restore what you took from me

Reality is whatever I claim

Now my story unfolds

Killing for practice is more attractive now that I have no soul

Smile as I play this role

Use my creation to plague the nation until I have control

Father, what have you done to me?

Lost in the shadow of the creature that you want me to be

Father, when will you set me free?

Is there a limit to the depths of my insanity?

Now I wake with another face

Wounds seeping blood run down a pale complexion as I wonder

How I’ll make my betrayers pay

Struggling to recall a reason for humanity

My dismay shall inspire pain

You beg for mercy but instead I bring you agony

Poisoning every breath you take

Stealing your life away, just like what you did to me

I open my eyes and see a light

One that can never be reached

For as soon as I’m ready embrace the sun

The black night swallows me whole

I am held captive by the darkness inside of me

Father, now are you proud of me?

I only reap destruction to honor your memory

Father, I feel your cold embrace

Losing myself under the blanket of your tragedy

Fate has selected me to be the killing joke, the harbinger of irony

They have underestimated me.

So I’ll just wait til you’re asleep

Don’t you dare fall asleep

Your torment makes me brand new

As I siphon all the life from you

The city weeps as I undo

Everything that you thought you knew