You think you’re gonna change world
You think the world is on your side
But the truth is if the world cared for you
The world’s gotta give a damn about your life
 
In the first place
You’ve been set up for failure
‘Cause when success is at your fingertips
Your dreams are gonna get derailed, yeah
 
Big hopes and head in the clouds
Flying high while you’re still around
And then anchored, beat to the ground
And you’re still nowhere to be found
 
I’m screaming, no one hears the sound
Suffocating, alone while I drowned
And while I’m left dead and let down
You weren’t there, it’s just me and clown
 
Just admit that your mission is
Pointless vindictive
Omitting perdition
Imprisonment of the real
Villain’s munition
Who's killing your children
While you put him back into revolving doors
 
Perfect lies wrapped inside
A benignant disguise
And I tried to fly high enough
To gratify you but
I'll never get my own
Chance to say goodbye
 
I'm immortalized in rose tinted glass
As your perfect soldier

Gutter trash, gutter trash
Where do you hide?
Beneath your castle of cardboard
Littered with flies

Gutter boy, gutter boy
Where is your pride?
Lowly and loud
But only outside
 
Fabricated, falsified
Do you believe your lies?
With a feral ferocity?
Have you said your goodbyes?

Gutter boy, gutter boy
Come out from the rain
Let me hide you from horrors
Shield you from pain
 
Gutter boy no more
Turned phoenix in flames
Rising and thriving
Look what you became
 
Phoenix child, phoenix boy
You may have a new name
But deep down, phoenix boy
You are still the same
 
Just admit that your mission is
Pointless vindictive
Omitting perdition
Imprisonment of the real
Villain’s munition
Who's killing your children
While you put him back into revolving doors
 
Perfect lies wrapped inside
A benignant disguise
And I tried to fly high enough
To gratify you but
I'll never get my own
Chance to say goodbye
 
I'm immortalized in rose tinted glass
As your perfect soldier