Now can you hear the cling-clang of my ball and chain gang?nThe sound of heavy metal that tastes like cellophanenCollapsing every vein like umbrellas in heavy rainnMy passion is painnI do dirt to bury shamenI'm victimized an institution's no solutionnA place where you're defenseless and guilt's the prosecutionnWhere necks are bound into slipknots of shallow soulsnWalking narrow roads to be hung from gallows polesnNobody knows me success has exposed menTo narrow-minded souls with goals to overthrow menSuppose that I chose to live my life low-keynWould you act like you could teachnWhen there is nothing you can show menDon't you understand I'm the head of the classnA straight A student not regretting the pastnn[CHORUS]nYou see I'm okay now but I don't think it will lastnBecause reality is something I can't seem to graspnCandy-coated pain is like a ball and chainnPulling me closer to death, I feel closer to death nownCandy-coated pain is like a ball and chainnWe only dig deeper by running awaynnIt's deeper than what it looks likenWe never got an equal shot so we took micsnPacked the candy-coated pain in the first pipenThat said my name and the candy-coated pain is the worst typenYou got it nice my every day is like your worst nightnThe world is digging in my wounds screaming out I bet it hurts right?nBut it hurts more I got regrets butnI'm glad I took the prize behind the first doornWhat's the hurt for?nEverybody hungers peace but they thirst warnIt's crazy I'm not complaining because I probably would have tried betternAnd if the people that I trusted weren't lie tellersnSo keep your candy-coated pain to make the vibe betternNow all the songs I'm writing sound like suicide lettersnn[Chorus]nnGuilty or innocent whatever pick the verdictnSometimes a perfect picture's not so perfectnThought I could reverse the mixture it isn't worth itnBecause my life seems to work no matter how bad curse itnI only know a little but I feel so muchnThe pain brings me down but it reveals the rushnSee I got my arms up just to shield the dustnBecause I lust for the things I can't seem to touchnArrest me if I follow younYou congest me I'm so hollow from your giftnYou infect me when I cut younStill the same still insanenI think I love youn(But fuck you)nn[Chorus]