Once upon a time   Sunk and surrounded   A comparison began   And the be-all and end-all   Well it never happened   The routine of questioning procedure   Was pushing me in the one way   I pretended to choose   I pretended to choose   So we experiment   And give things a chance   We find ourselves a rut slightly less obvious   By taking command   And the package states   There's no such thing as destiny   Pick the flavor you want   The hanger-on will emulate it to a T   Becoming more than the idol ever was   It's no experiment   Everything is a calculation   We're silly echoes   Who don't make sense   Caught up tight   In the dumb things we do   We feel the need to release   The results of reactions   That take place within our heads   All the stupid shit   You counterfeit and fabricate   Show me anything that's never been done   One in a million   One of a million   The echo's confused   Each reflection of the past   Takes a life of its own   Once upon a time   We knew it was coming   We hoped it was coming   Go build big lies, go build big lies   It's compensation for the nothings we are inside   We fuck ourselves just to see what it feels like   Retch perfection   It's self-importance all the way   A chip on my shoulder   And it's almost as big as yours   Go build big lies, go build big lies   It's compensation for the void that we have inside   Let's pretend we tried to see   What it feels like   Shit fulfillment   It's self-importance all the way   I've got a chip on my shoulder   And it's almost as big as yours   (We're number one)