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