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