CΛNVΛS

[Verse 1]

Your skin stretched on your frame like a canvas, canvas

You’re hiding inside your brain ’cause you’re panicked, frantic

Please don’t do anything too drastic, drastic

They just wanna make you out of plastic - (Plastic)

You walk down their halls and meet their blind gaze, blind gaze

They try to trick and make you play their mind games, mind games

They shun you ‘cause you don’t fit in their frame, always

They don’t know real art when they see it, anyways...

[Chorus]

I know they try and paint you with two blind eyes

I know they hide your splendor with their disguise

[Verse 2]

Your mind breaks, like your heart, and your frail bones, frail bones

You can’t find your way back to your real home, real home

You try and raise yourself up but your spirit knows, spirit knows

You have lost what you had to make you grow - (You grow)

You look into your grave like a mirror, mirror

You think that you are far but you’re nearer, nearer

You look back at yourself, but they fear it, flee it

They don’t even know art when they hear it, see it

[Rap]

They try and stuff you into their mold,

Cut off of what they think could be sold

Cut off of what they know could grow old

Cut off of what they know they can hold onto

To keep you in their cold, unblinking sight

To instill fear, to install fright, and make it eternal night

Then, they force you back into the mold and something happens

I can’t explain

The vices and grips, they twist your brain

The plaster and paint drive you insane

You start chipping away at yourself

You want to fit in and be on the shelf

With the normals and perfects

But that’s not your purpose

The Maker initially intended, Himself!

[Chorus]

I know they try and paint you with two blind eyes

I know they hide your splendor with their disguise

I know they try and mask you with their black lies

But your soul knows the sun has risen when the dark dies…

[Bridge]

Take this to your grave (x8)

[Outro]

I know they try and paint you with two blind eyes

I know they hide your splendor with their disguise

I know they try and mask you with their black lies

But your soul knows the sun has risen when the dark dies…