Oh this injustice   Unconsidered crime   Simple betrayals of the greatest kind      Why is it that you, that you told me   That all the things that I’d enjoy    Would only withhold me      (Here it goes…)      Keep on striving don’t you stop   Keep on climbing till the top   If you’re not swimming, then you’re sinking   There is no time for higher thinking      Prosper, Succeed, Conquer, Obtain   Accomplish, Produce, Become and Gain   Beauty, Health, Fortune and Fame   Cuz this will be the only way      Cuz there’s no concept of enough   We don’t care whose throat you cut   Keep on serving your plate’s not full   What are you doing resting fool?      I took it all as innate   And the expectations became ingrained   So it began to serve as my salvation   Therefore any moments rest   Was time not spent being the best      Suddenly all you taught me to achieve    Took over my life and got the best of me   Stuck obeying the cycle      But I’m not stupid   How long did you think you could hold me down?   But so much is clear and everything’s lucid   Now your fables, your fables, they mean shit to me now      Self-loathing and self-violating   Looking in the mirror incessantly hating   Everything I was and everything I wasn’t      I had done all you said to a tee   Still I couldn’t find a way to be happy   It wasn’t till the day I was met with the brunt   Of not earning what made my life significant      Suddenly all you promised became an illusion   And I found clinical depression in this confusion   I was driven insane      But I’m not stupid   How long did you think you could hold me down?   But so much is clear and everything’s lucid   Now your fables, your fables, they mean shit to me now      Supposed to   Have to   Need to   Me too   All the things that we will bleed through      Forward   Upward   Another mile   All you said would make us smile      Thrive   Acquire   Wretched liar   Wonder why we turn to ire?   Think you’ve got us by the balls   Think you’ve got us chained to walls?      I had to let it go   Cuz it was tearing at my soul      Obsessed questioning   Makes this beg for wreckoning   And I won’t hold this back for you   Cuz I will duke this out with you   Your fables that once frightened me   Now they have enlightened me   Your ideologies   I know what to believe      But I’m not stupid   How long did you think you could hold me down?   But so much is clear and everything’s lucid   Now your fables, your fables, they mean shit to me now      Look who figured it out   Look who’s laughing now