This Mask and Suit.

[ItsSammy]

This Mask and Suit.

Ask me who I am and I'll tell you, "I am he.
I am the one you look for, when you see me
I am many things like the wind, sand and sea
But everyone seems to think I am simply debris ..."

Ask me who I am and I'll tell you, "I have shed,
The skin I wear now is but tacked on instead
For I am the darkness at the foot of your bed
And I am the thoughts that run through your head"

Oh yes, my dear ask me who I am before you
I wear this stupid suit for I am the man like a statue
I wear this funny mask for I am the one that you pursue
And no matter how you ask, my answer sounds like deja vu ...

Behind a mask lies skin, then muscle and bone
For ever since I was born I have but grown
Yet this suit still fits and this mask, still mine own
For I never out grow the things that I've known

Reality is what they make it
We're perfect if we fake it
And maybe I can break it
If I can but take it ...

They fear what they can't control
I control what they can't patrol
Though they look for a loophole
They can not steal your soul

Time is only relevant when I say it is
Go back in time to change all this
Re-enact the day it'd miss
And I create an abyss

Death is just the after thought
Aftershock of what you forgot
But don't forget what I have taught
And all the things that I have wrought

For behind this mask is just muscle and bone
Under this suit is something unknown
And behind these eyes lies a cyclone
Dangerous I am, yet scared to be alone ...

I listen to every song, but I dance to none
You look at me like I have become undone
And when you see past this mask, someone
I know under this suit is a vivid midnight sun

They may call me crazy, insane
But no one knows my brain
They all simply live in vain
Numb to this overt pain 

Different is for destruction
Needs no introduction
They miss deduction
Instead, obstruction

I don't believe in coincidence anymore
The voice of the wicked, now at a roar
And that's what everyone lives for
Masks and suits, reality now folklore

Have them stand up and speak. so loud
Everyone listens and repeats, so proud
Not a single soul in this huge crowd
Maybe its time for a storm cloud

Don't miss me when I'm gone
For I've been the black swan
Who brought the new dawn
And something for you to dwell on

Behind this mask and suit
Is someone they persecute
For different doesn't compute
With what they constitute 

But, my dear
Do not fear
Change is here
Crystal clear

I will die tonight with this, a smile on my face
With a laugh on my lips, that they can't replace
And these memories of mine, they can not erase
For even when I'm gone, I live on in your memory trace

For I am not my mask, nor I am I this suit I wear
I am everything I gave up to right what was unfair
I am everything I gave to bring back what was in disrepair
And I am everything I've done to fix what brought me despair ...

Edited May 2, 2019 by ItsSammy