these baby secrets have grown into children   through dirty adolescence and now into manhood   I locked the basement door and broke off the skeleton key   but it made no difference still they travel with me even though I killed them they haunt me and they help me   remember the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades   my hands are an axe chopping at the roots   of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit   to cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce   another heart of lies or house of haunted rooms      the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been   so distant and weak   dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"   your ocean is a drop of water      tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken salesman as he's rolling down the conveyer belt   the product is almost ready to be shipped out the door   out into the world to make a living selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em   to forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades   the enemy will make sure the ties on straight   it's always best to make an impression of wealth   no matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface   "I love you" spills like vomit from her lips      the arrow is thrown into your back   nothing has ever been so distant and weak   the dreaded words whispered under her breath "you're just like your father"   your ocean is a drop of water   I locked the basement doors and broke of the skeleton key   forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me