Villain Mode Activated

(look at my hands)

(watch what they do)

Used to pray I wouldn't turn into the monster at the door

Now I'm counting up the wreckage laying scattered on the floor Every

boundary that I set became a line I had to cross Never

noticed how the poison felt until I paid the cost (it was

cold)

Kept the mask on till the mirror didn't recognize my eyes Turned

my empathy to armor,

turned my mercy into lies

I became the shadow creeping on the wall

Waited for my savior,

watched the curtain fall Now I

hold

the match

I'm the villain that I used to fear

Burned the bridge and left the ashes here

(left 'em there)

Look into my face,

nobody innocent survives Turn the blade around and watch it cut through

all their lives I'm the villain that I used to fear (look

at me

now)

Told myself it was defense until I loved the heavy sound Of

the people that I trusted running face-first to the ground Got no

sympathy remaining, I don't flinch when people bleed Every nightmare that I

ran from turned into a hungry greed (all of it) Felt the

hero bleed away and let the black ink fill my skin Locked

the prison from the outside just to keep the terror in

I became the nightmare creeping on the wall

Stood up on the ledge and didn't care about the fall

Strike the flint right now

There is no redemption waiting at the end

No one left to save and nobody to defend

I chose the dark

I took the crown

I'm the villain that I used to fear

Burned the bridge and left the ashes here

(ashes fall) Look into my face,

nobody innocent survives

Turn the blade around and watch it cut through all their lives

I'm the villain that I used to fear

(look at me now)

Never thought I'd wear the horns.

Now

they fit just fine.