Petrified

You're the breath in us too

You're the test of what's true

You're the one that stops them

You become the problem

It's just a different side

Of the many walls in your mind

The walls with secret panels

Built with knives and hammers

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

You're the pain I go through

To get to where I need to

You're the retribution

A sordid institution

It's just a different way

Of "saving face", as you say

A face that spares no malice

That drinks the poisoned chalice

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

You take the falling rain

You make the sun that dried it

You shoulder all the blame

You've got the strength to hide it

Led emotion to the door

Remind me who you were before

You are the wheels in motion

A wave of self-promotion

You beat a different drum

The rhythm's strong, but no fun

You are the vengeful hand

That tasted sweet, but so bland

You are my one protection

But you try to hard to get them

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

You take the falling rain

You make the sun that dried it

You shoulder all the blame

You've got the strength to hide it

Led emotion to the door

Remind me who you were before

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

Petrified

By what you've done - and you've just begun

I hope you get your way

But what a price to pay

What a price to pay

What a price to pay

What a price to pay