Lose Your Head

Bittersweet memories
Reform an amalgam of loyalty
Curses cast in the name of spite
Leave scars unspoken through the dying night

Generations come and go
Yet tears stay frozen through melted snow
Leave your baggage with the dead
But be sure not to lose your head

Through the pews of an old rustic room
Echo memories from before the womb
("Dios te salve, María")
Carving scars beneath a truth

Could you say in a way it's a game
Of rewriting pain in distorted hues?
("Dios te salve, María")
Searching for a holy view

Obscure the parts within your heart
An apostolic work of art
You know that it's the only way to run away, run away
See through the superficial fluff
Laced with a sacrificial snuff
You know that it's the only way to run away, run away

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Leading through the rubble
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Scared of causing trouble
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Knowing that the house of
God was built upon the martyr's claws (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)

But even with the days
She couldn't ever run away
Aching
For the storybook ending she yearned for
Rereading every page
Trapped in a melancholic daze
Still praying
Oh, Lord, please tell them that I say

I need a family
There for me (I know we're still grieving these feelings)
Ah, this decapitated apathy (But why can't you all understand?)
As the cycle takes my head

I live as a lamb for the lucidly damned
Still losing my grip on this body
They all point and laugh, but can you be mad?
I'm just not the way that they want me

I'm running from time
But really, I'm fine
I'm not gonna lie
I'm pissed that God made me this way
In a morbid exchange
Of theatrics and heavenly fate

Obscure the damage in your heart
A vitriolic work of art
You know that it's the only way to hide away, hide away
See through the superficial fluff
Laced with a sacrificial snuff
You know that it's the only way to hide away, hide away

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Leading through the rubble
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Scared of causing trouble
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Knowing that the house of
God was built upon the martyr's claws (Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha)

I wish you loved me in a way that didn't hurt
I wish you knew me more than the parts of me you burned
I know you're all trying to change
So it pains me to say how I've given up
I've found solace in feeling stuck

But even with the days
Things never ever seem to change
Done waiting
For that storybook ending I yearned for
Tearing out every page
While cursing out a daemon's name
Still praying
Oh, Lord, please hear me when I say

That even with the days
She couldn't ever run away
Aching
For the childish ending she yearned for
Rereading every page
Trapped in a melancholic daze
Still praying
Oh, God, I'm begging them to say

We'll be the family
That you need (I know we're still grieving these feelings)
Ah, this decapitated agony (But why can't you all understand?)
As the cycle takes my head

Generations come and go
Yet tears stay frozen through melted snow
Leave your baggage with the dead
But be sure not to lose your head