Chains shackle me    With truth I'm face to face    Backed up in between    A damp cage I remain    In the cell of numb despair    The chill engulfs my veins    There's only one notion that I revere    The only truth in life is pain       It levels and crushes at its free will    My doomed fate will soon be sealed       Pain's invention, madness    Preys behind my eyes    Pain's invention, madness    Now I realize    Pain's invention, madness    Though I'll not break free    Pain's invention, madness    Truth eternally       Beyond my grasp is a life    That I will never attain    Happiness, joy, not in sight    Supplanted by truth's dark reign    Physical, mental agony shows    Along which my life revolves    Either you feel it, or you don't    There are never lies involved       Clutching to my abnormality    Hand in hand with destiny       Pain's invention, madness    Preys behind my eyes    Pain's invention, madness    Now I realize    Pain's invention, madness    Though I'll not break free    Pain's invention, madness    Truth eternally       When you are pumping full of life    The one sensation that you have    Can penetrate through love or hate    Existence on a higher plane    In death and life, both the domains    Surrender totally to pain       I slip and claw and scream    It calls    Leave me alone with me    It yearns    I'm bleeding from my brain    It needs me    I'm helpless, trapped behind    Its walls    Tearing apart my mind    It burns    Upon my naked soul    It feeds       Streams of consciousness fill the page    As my nerve endings scream in rage    Deliver me to the darkest age    As DeSade sits at center stage       My flesh is but a portal now    To wisdom and truth I am avowed       Pain's invention, madness    Pain's invention, madness       Twisting through the door    Am I nevermore?    My breath I can feel    Therefore I am real       I've succumbed to there heinous sins    And I'll never be forgiven    Shackled and bound, my new life I've found    And I've tasted the fruits forbidden       I've craving more    Of pain's overtures    Liberation is near    And I have nothing to fear       In this journey of self-discovery    I have found the keys to be set free    In this wicked course, I've uncovered the force    That will keep me vital eternally       Pain's invention, madness    The force that preys behind my eyes    Pain's invention, madness upon me    Pain's invention, madness    It takes this long to realize    Pain's invention, madness, has set me free       Transcendency    Of mere mortality    Tortured infliction    Is now my addiction    Constant agony    Has created me    I am suffering    Through this atrocity       I'm not blind to what I might find    Squirming way down deep inside my labyrinthine mind    Inhibitions removed, replaced with scar tissue    And I'm punished with blades of my lobotomizing suit       I've sought this dream    In its violent extreme    Now my pleasure is clear    Though the lesson's severee       My will is strong, but I could be wrong    This new doctrine for which I've been searching all along is    The religion of truth through administration of pain    The body only takes so much before it drives the mind insane       As a matter of fact, my friend    I've come to my bitter end    It's not a torture rack I'm in    Though I can still pretend    It's a jacket of white with buckles and straps    Not a pleasure device at all    It keeps me safely under wraps    While I'm chained to this padded wall       hear my cries...    you'll never know