I'm waiting on the edge
Of some place I can't explain
I'm taken by the pain
Of something I can't escape
Show me half a truth
Make a monster out of you
Come to give myself away
To the beauty and abuse
It's death by 1000 papercuts
It's a death by 1000 papercuts
Forgiving the thoughts I've banned
I've come to know the whippings and the lashes
I've borrowed from the outside
Show me half a truth
(Show me)
Make a monster out of you
(Monster)
Come to give myself away
(Give me)
I'm pushed to live and die for just another day
It's death by 1000 papercuts
It's a death by 1000 papercuts
Yeah it's death by 1000 papercuts
It's a death by 1000 papercuts
Slip once, slip a thousand times
Hang on to the merry go round
No must, no should or try
This pulse it just happens
And everything keeps happening
Within me, without me
Within me, without me
Within me, without me
Within me, without me
Death!
Death!
Death!
Death!
Death!
Death!
It's a death by 1000 papercuts
It's death by 1000 papercuts
I'm turning with the world
If there's anything I've learned
Is that nothing burns forever