And we open chapter one beginning with an anecdote
And a dose of Trapanal to have you all enchanted
And enamored with the glamour of the camera's flashing
Now picture that you're battling the phantom of imagination
With patience and as it happens you're thrashing for life in a sea full of Kraken
Too weak to attack them, they're eating the flagship
Inside of your mind that you need to surpass them
In war, yet you find a realm in the tip of your cortex
A mental oasis so you forfeit the will to continue
Are ripped to a vortex
Of painful ecstasy and blissful misfortune
But then you forget when you wake up (x2)

What if dreams are repressed memories?
What if life is a death penalty?
What if I'm just a pretentious kid
Pretending the world has more depth than it seems?

What if everybody slept at the same time
During those moments what things would we miss
Or what if everybody knelt to the same God
Would it bring together or be reason to drift
What if I said another "what if" and it turned to reality
And I turned every fallacy to logic
And I'm learning to count all the little fibs
That I spit to repent for I'm burning down in the pits of
Heaven, wait I mean Hell, but even the worst dirt of earth can make a clean smell
To the blind mute, deaf or even overly stressed
Nevertheless it's best to keep your soul off the retail
You might have lost it when you wake up (x2)

What is waking up?
The end of your last dream or the start of a new one?
The continuation of a pursued one or
The thought of one you've done
(x2)

And we're closing chapter one we'll end it with the antidote
I can't evoke the passion with no cure for all this madness
Wait, who am I kidding I don't even have it
But I'm flattered that you made it this far into the tracklist
Is your head okay? my hands not
But as the lead decays I'm only getting sharper
Now I'm flipping off of the brink of insanity while sipping out of a cup of my own vanity
Landing in a soft cotton bed, sleep med popping, head rotting
But I'm still writing cause I can't stop it
And I'm trying to stay tough, I never gave up
Cause I'm scared that this won't be shared if I never wake up . . .