Periphery by Fossil

Living in the shadow
Looking in from the outside
All a person needs is just to stay alive
Passing every benchmark
Dotting every 'i'
Thank my lucky stars when you pass me by

Breaking free from the periphery
Lock the chains back onto my psyche
Guide me to your kingdom forged in steam
Promise me regression toward the mean

Slept in late this morning
No reason to even try
Tuning in and dropping out
I don't know why
Go to work tomorrow
Good enough to just get by
Normalcy is all I want
Why would I lie

Breaking free from the periphery
Lock the chains back onto my psyche
Guide me to your kingdom forged in steam
Promise me regression toward the mean

Mental constraints plaguing me
Behind eyes you cannot see
Who am I
Who will I be
Leave me be or break me free

Freedom only leads to suffering
Blinded by the vision you have seen
Burning hotter than a scorpion's sting
Life is nothing but a fever dream

Break me free
Break me free
Break me free
Break me free

• Rock
• grunge rock
• hard rock
• metal
• paleontology
• prog metal
• Somerville