[Verse 1] Skin so thin Heart so soft Untainted innocence Fresh for the rocks Screams and cries Betrayal and lies Each cutting deeper Each scar becoming clearer [Chorus] Layered skin Stacked neat Stacked tight Each layer armor From world's senseless spite Frayed screams Hollowed eyes Shedding thin behind thickened hide Grown so callous (so callus) Underneath the lamella The soul survives [Verse 2] Purity's lost to scrutiny And layers thicken again Depravity leads to morality Our society flaking thin Crushed. Stuck. Shattered and shamed. Till the skin's so thick So cold, no pain [Bridge] Never wanted to be this way But the avalanche of life It crushes down Buried beneath the ice Lamella of frost Down so deep Nothing can reach here Far underneath... [Chorus] Layered skin Stacked in neat Stacked in tight Each layer stronger Forged heart, soul under ice Cast in frost and farther In the packed strata Protected, and layered deep Far underneath... My lamella [Instrumental] [Bridge 2] Fossilized in fear In suffocating layers So lost far beneath The lamella becomes the jailer --- Gotta excavate (excavate) Elevate above the flesh Ascend to the surface (find purchase) Upon the plateau of pain I've shed [Outro Chorus] Layered skin Shed the weak Shed the fright Each layer higher A mountain I survived Cold chrysalis to fighter The strata, a mesa comprised Of the scars that once enveloped All the layers that once buried I stand upon the stacks of... Above my lamellamore

[Verse 1] Raised from rock bottom, With ramen in the bowl, No power, no problem, Got candles, got a glow. Survive not thrive, Thunder in our bellies, Life's harsh lessons, Generational naivety. [Chorus] CLEAVE! (Who, shattered, are we?) CLEAVE! (What families are torn?) CLEAVE! (When poverty that leads,) Where anger, rage - born! So, how... How do we live (cloven...) Why do we work (cloven...) How do we hate (cloven...) Why do we hurt? [Verse 2] Familial dysfunction, Violence provoked, Substance consumption, Broken we cope. Raised in screams. Raised by streets. What chance do we got, At living in peace? [Instrumental: Primal, Guitar Lead] [Chorus] CLEAVE! (Who, shattered, are we?) CLEAVE! (What families are torn?) CLEAVE! (When poverty that leads,) Where anger, rage - born! So, why... Why do we live (cloven...) How do we work (cloven...) Why do we hate (cloven...) Why do we hurt? [Verse 3] Society broken. Poverty pandemic. Working for nothing, Wealthy and wicked. Education indoctrination, Broken nation cultivation, Hatred making conversation, Skewing our beliefs. [Bridge] From the hole (we climb) We try to climb (and hold) Darkness holds (and is pulling) Pulls our minds (with crushing) Crushing heels (towering) Towering above (to stomp) Stomp the wills... That dare to climb up! [Chorus] CLEAVE! (Who, shattered, are we?) CLEAVE! (What families are torn?) CLEAVE! (When poverty that leads,) Where anger, rage - born! So, why... Why do we live (cloven...) Why do we work (cloven...) Why do we hate (cloven...) Why do we hurt? [Final Chorus] CLEAVE! (Who, shattered, are we?) CLEAVE! (What families are torn?) CLEAVE! (When poverty that leads,) Where anger, rage - born! So, how... How do we live (cloven...) How do we work (cloven...) How do we hate (cloven...) How do we hurt...more

You know that rage inside... that threatens to turn you into a monster. Yeah, this is about that. Written by: Bobby '3 Fingers' Williams Lyrics [Intro] [Whispered] Sometimes I wish I were all alone... [VERSE 1] All this hurting, Always burning, Slowly turning, The inside of me. All these feelings, That I'm dealing , Is fueling all this, Rage that seethes. [CHORUS] Now tell me why when, Why when I feel em, That I can't spill em? The demons in me. Release the demons, Please, just a reason, Reason for my demons, To leave. [VERSE 2] I wanna be alone Inside, on my own, To go subside, The only place I know, Believe me, I've tried. It's a place, Where monsters hide. [Verse 3] An empty place to go, An escape for my soul. Where all's left's an echo, Of my mind. This prison I'm bound, This pain within, Only home I've ever known This hell I'm in. [CHORUS] Now tell me why is it? When I start to heal, And still, pain I feel? Now can you tell me... Tell me why? Because my demons - They keep fucking with me! They keep screaming, Fucking with my sanity! [Instrumental] [BRIDGE] Now tell me why, (why) Now tell me when, (when) I can't seem to heal, I can't seem to win. Now tell me how, (how) Do I feel inside, (inside) When my demons play With my fucking MIND? Fucked! (Fucked!) BEASTS! (BEASTS!) HERE COME THE BEASTS! (BEASTS!) DEMONS! (IN ME!) In me they all FEAST! By the fires, That immolate me! Blood of my ashes! Soul in the flames! The beasts within... Feral! Untamed! [Instrumental] So now lately I’ve been a little crazy, And hateful maybe It’s the reason lately, I paint the razor, Rusty with the Blood in me. And now I’m crying Bloody tears. Realizing - Voices in my head Whisper (whisper) "You're gonna bleed Now instead!" [FINAL CHORUS] Now tell me why, Is it that when, I start to bleed, Something wakes up in, Takes hold and, My demons, (DEMONS!) Alive now in me! My demons (DEMONS!) [Instrumental] [Outro] The voices praise, The Hell I raise. Every bloody drop, Every scarlet spray, Oh yes they praise... My rivers red!more