3ringsleft - Man in the Iron Mask Lyrics

Wake up from rust-filled fever dreams
This is backmasked reality
Think I need to file a break-in
I spit blood and I don't know whose it is

Hey, boys, I don't feel so good today
Oh, damn, if I only had a brain

Hello, there's nobody home
Yeah, my mind has washed up in shipwreck cove
And if you think you've got it bad
Try one day as the Man in the Iron Mask

(In the Iron Mask)
Let's go a few rounds just for fun
I'll deign to let you think you won
Here there be monsters and they know
Not to stare down this animal

Oh, my dear, you're still not hearing me
Don't you know I'm not ourself today?

Hello, there's nobody home
Yeah, my mind has washed up in shipwreck cove
And if you think you've got it bad
Try one day as the Man in the Iron Mask

(And they feed me like a titan
But they keep me on a chain
They call me insane
Just like it's my name
We can't escape their domain)

I sleep with an open eye
Fool me once, I'll kill you twice
Sink my teeth into your mind
Now I'll show you what it feels like
I'm like a zombie, walkin' dead
Got these things plugged in my head
Try to keep me mummified
But, no, I won't cough up my pride
(Oh, I'm a)
Hellhound, rundown, and I'm unsound
The meanest beast in this whole pound
Touch me, I'll string you upside-down
Tell me, how do you like me now?
I try, I try, I try
And I'm not perfect but
I try, I try, I try
And it's not workin'
I'm mechanical, manacled
To a system that's tyrannical, satanical
You could say I'm free but
I still taste the chemicals
Wake up on the floor (I'm in disarray)
Mental civil war (Just another day)
Dizzy in the head (I don't feel like me)
Losin' you again (Oh, they took everything)
Think you got it hard but you don't
Even know what that means
All your demons, they been havin'
Nightmares all about me
You think that you could walk in my shoes?
You wouldn't last
One day, one day
In the Iron Mask

I just want to be myself again
They tell me, "Don't you know
This is all in your head?"

Hello, there's nobody home
Yeah, my mind has washed up in shipwreck cove
And if you think you've got it bad
Try one day, one day

Hello, there's nobody home
Yeah, my mind has flown over the rainbow
And if you think you've got it bad
Try one day as the Man in the Iron Mask

And I'm not perfect but
I try, I try, I try
And I'm not perfect but
I try, I try, and try
And I'm not perfect but
I try, and I try, I try
And I'm not perfect but
I try, I try, I try