Mean steel man halfway grinning

Gave me a box didn't know what's in it

Smooth and shiny big and tiny

Didn't want to look inside

WHY?

Cos I was scared of what was gonna be there

Maybe gonna see my soul too bare

And if so I wanted to go

Cos that's something I'd rather not know

Mean steel man made me furious

But I couldn't help being curious

He knew I couldn't hold back

It was my path

He laughed



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You bought the big black box

You threw your soul on the rocks

You bought the big black box

You bought the big black, big black BOX



Something changed I rearranged

Like this whole thing was preordained

My heart shattered and animal matter

Served to me my mind on a platter

I lost it all inside the box

Sittin there starin at the clock

Watchin life from the beginning

All its worth all its sinning

As its hopeless people fell

I turned my back what the hell

Like all my ancestors through time

In self and ignorance our common crime



CHORUS



Now I spend my nights trying to forget

The things I saw I regret

Goin forward never tell

Let the others fend for themselves

Demons' eyes pass me by

Piercin through on either side

I'll let it slide let it die

Lift my sights up to the sky

The pain has fallen to another

Who has yet to discover

A big black box sittin on a shelf

A mean steel man inside himself



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