Verse 1
Building reliance upon what consumes your soul
Turning your intellect to a crisp charcoal

Burning your aspirations, and hunger to try
Spending all your treasured time just to get high


Pre-Chorus
Above who you really are
Do you even know?


Chorus
Misusing

Won't bring an escape
Wasting time
Struggling with finding yourself


Verse 2
Shooting into an empty vessel just to live

Facing controlling forces that won't forgive
Begging for mercy from the inner selfishness
Crying aloud for more of what you obsess


Pre-Chorus
Overlooking the reason

For a given life

Chorus (Part 2)

Stare into
The bottom of a bottle
Distorted

View of the shell, you have become