Killing the Thing That You Love - Styx

Brick by brick you built a mansion

Piece by piece it seems

You’re tearing it down

Once you walked so tall and handsome

Now nobody even wants you around

Now you’re just some kind of

Leftover clown

Now you’re like Quasi Modo crying

As you look in the mirror

At what you’ve become

Killing the thing that you love

Like Lennon’s assassin

Lennon’s assassin

Reaching for Venus De Milo

But she’s never gonna hold you tight

You plant plutonium silos

Then you blister from the sun that’s too bright

Like a vampire stepping into the light

Just a victim of your own greed as you

Look in the mirror

At what you’ve become

Killing the world that you love

Like Lennon’s assassin

Lennon’s assassin

The genius of a generation

Blown away just like a leaf on the wind

And now you’re looking for salvation

But you can’t forget the places you’ve been

And you can’t erase a lifetime of sin

And you can’t escape the answers as you

Look in the mirror

At what you’ve become

Dredging the river for what you have done

Killing the thing that you love

Like Lennon’s assassin

Lennon’s assassin