Odin Phoenix - The Preservation of My Soul Lyrics

When you threw my soul around your shadows
Did it land in the direction you all pleased?

When all of your skinny fingers ravaged my fetal brain
Did its quivering rope suffocate each one of your breaths?

When you forced all your dark shadows on my ripening mind
Did you sigh at my cries?

When you all rendered my existence as of futility and humility
Did the cuts in my arms wake up your eyes?

Oh, you bloomed my rotting flowers
Oh, you bloomed my rotting flowers
Oh, you bloomed my rotting flowers
Oh, you bloomed my rotting flowers

Was my existence a mistake?
Was my existence a mistake to you all?

When you built a cage around my breath
When you stole the light from my eyes

When you pushed me back into my shadows
When you painted me in scrutiny

When you twisted all my crooked shades
When you held my existence of disgrace
When you blacklisted my words

And when you blamed it on me
Were you all happy? Were you all happy?

Look what I've become, look at what I've become
Are you happy? Are you happy?

Now tell me, is difference so palpable
You renounce me of my humanity?

But you don't know, you are different
You just don't know, don't you
No one does

When you bless me a life but you stab my soul everyday
How do I love you?

When the pores of my skin stitch your paranoid eyes
How do I love you?

When your lies are projected with a sickening cry
How do I believe you?

When your every action reeks of doubt and disapproval
I don't know

But you don't know, you don't know
You don't know, I can't blame you

You do love me, I know
But I'm sorry I can't

I just suffer from the result of your exploitation
Absent and harsh but of love, I can't blame you