Like a marionette hanging from its strings You live you love you dance but it's not real So take a bow, emaciated little thing 'Cause you finally have the audience you need Thinking back to your mother's lullabies How you dreamed of drifting free across the sky Now you drag your approximated cut-out wings Show the fractures in your perfect porcelain Don't waste your life away A black heart's a noose So cut your strings and come down I feel a different way You see bruise I see bloom In everything you hear sound Like a Roman candle flickering Oh how easily our dreams are extinguished And I know that you can't forget if you can't forgive All the pain I see you burden yourself with Don't waste your life away A black heart's a noose So cut your strings and come down I feel a different way You see bruise I see bloom In everything you hear sound We waste our lives away With these laments to youth We're all lost anyway So cut your strings and come down We waste our lives away Looking for things to lose We're all lost anyway In everything you hear sound 'Cause the black heart in you We're all lost anyway Is the only thing that I've found That matters at all