My throat falls numb from the   Endless execution of contempt's song   It fails to follow suit in silence even now   I can hear every word, leave this place      If only you could just be half as hateful   If only I could still take you with a grain of salt   I could fake some respect and hide the pity   For what I once feared is now somehow down on my level      I never claimed to see through another's eyes   I could never inflict such abuse upon myself honestly   Honest in a sense that I'm willing   But such intensity is dulled with age      Leaving me some spoiled child   I'll take it in stride, with every cheep shot landed   I took it without crying, now shut the fuck up      I've always sang the cowards song   I've never claimed to be, anything but   Like father like son, we'll find an easy way   I'll fly so high to no longer hear the hisses   Of hatred ringing in my head      Selfishly sober in spite of you   I'll never be the man to which you compare me   Selfishly sober in spite of them   You boast, I'm dead to you and I in turn agree      I turned a deaf ear on you, I knew the rest   Sob stories were never my strong suit   Now just as threatening as I'll let you be   I keep a short rope and a shorter fuse      For the one who love's who?   I won't leave this place   So boast I'm dead to you with dying breath   I can't hear a thing, I never could      Fuck your apologies   I've tolerated your last death threat   I don't condone the likes of anyone so keep your word   And consider me dead to you