I wake up in the ashes of another wasted night
Chasing ghosts through empty bottles, hiding from the light
Every mirror shows a stranger with a thousand broken names
And every road I’ve ever taken leads me back to shame
I’ve screamed into the void so long
My voice became the sound of pain
A prisoner inside my mind
Wearing guilt like rusted chains
These scars beneath the skin will never fade away
I’m drowning in the darkness, but I beg for one more day
I’ve bled for every failure, every sin I’ve tried to hide
Still I never feel enough, no matter how I fight
Lost inside the wreckage of the man I couldn’t save
These scars beneath the skin are all I have to take
The needle and the bottle were the only friends I knew
They promised me salvation while they slowly pulled me through
To a place where hope was buried underneath a pile of lies
Where every dream was hanging from a rope inside my mind
I’ve carried every wound alone
Like stones that drag me to the grave
The harder that I tried to run
The more I became a slave
(These scars beneath the skin will never fade away
I’m drowning in the darkness, but I beg for one more day
I’ve bled for every failure, every sin I’ve tried to hide
Still I never feel enough, no matter how I fight
Lost inside the wreckage of the man I couldn’t save
These scars beneath the skin are all I have to take
I AM THE SHADOW OF THE LIFE I LEFT BEHIND!
A BROKEN HALO, A FRACTURED MIND!
EVERY REGRET IS CARVED INTO MY BONES!
SURROUNDED BY CROWDS, YET DYING ALONE!
Not enough!
Never enough!
The voices keep reminding me!
Not enough!
Never enough!
No matter what I’ll never be free!
These scars beneath the skin still burn like open flames
A monument to everything addiction took away
But somewhere in the darkness there’s a spark I cannot kill
Though I’m battered, bruised, and bleeding, I’m still standing here still
The pain may be my shadow, but it won’t become my grave
These scars beneath the skin remind me I survived
I survived…
Through the loss…
Through the pain…
Through the hell I couldn’t name…
I survived.
