Psychotic - Machine Head

I’m at the end of my rope

And I’m starting to choke

The noose is tightening around my throat

It’s strangling the hope

That’s hiding in my soul

I argue with myself 'cause I can’t take control

So drag me through the trough

With my Vietnam cough

And take this straitjacket off

I’m powerless and down

And cracking from the stress

Constricting like a python as it tightens 'round my chest

I got a fucking death wish

Fighting all my enemies

Wrecking all their fucking dreams

My hands they bleed from the nails

Fingers make a fist

Don’t tell me I’m a fatalist

Dancing 'round so frantically

Laughing so maniacally

I can’t escape insanity

Trapped in my pain

Fight to keep myself sane

Silent I scream

Tortured by these dark dreams

So get the fuck away from me and hide knives

'Cause I can’t trust myself tonight

I’ll straight up lie and say

Anything to make it alright

You said you’d love me till the end

Now you want to end?

It’s not the end till I say so!

Take your little razor blades

Cut me up and shed the pain

Let them stitch my heart up, black it out

Hand print on the wall

Blood holds me in thrall

Castrated by the butcher’s blade that severs all

Trapped in my pain

Fight to keep myself sane

Silent I scream

Tortured by these dark dreams

Silent I scream

Tortured by these dark dreams

Trapped in my pain

Fight to keep myself sane

Nails rake the skin in perfect rows

Spine shivers down from head to toe

Feeling sicker every second that passes

I vomit the pain as I puke till I gasp

My breathing quickens, heart starts to race

The lines sink deeper into my face

Peel the filth away, a sick bloody habit

Pick through the scabs as I sift through the maggots

Tobacco stains and tar

Fingernails burnt and charred

The smell of piss and rain

The odor rots my brain

Psychotic

Thoughts from hell arise

Do I wanna let silence die?

Kill myself to survive

Needle in my arm and the damage is done and I’m

Psychotic

Thoughts from hell arise

Do I wanna let silence die?

Kill myself to survive

Needle in my arm and the damage is done and I’m

Psychotic

Thoughts from hell arise

Do I wanna let silence die?

Kill myself to survive

Needle in my arm and the damage is done 'cause I’m

Psychotic

Thoughts from hell arise

Do I wanna let silence die?

Kill myself to survive

Needle in my arm and the damage is done tonight

Trapped in my pain

Fight to keep myself sane

Silent I scream

Tortured by these dark dreams

Silent I scream

Tortured by these dark dreams

Trapped in my pain

Fight to keep myself sane