I'm afraid you drank their poison
Afraid you drank too much
They filled your glass with black things
And it burnt you to the touch
The thing about this poison
Is you don't know how it works
Until it runs all through you
And rots you to a corpse
I'm afraid it fell right through your lips
Afraid it left a stain
The poison slid right down your throat
And worked into your veins
Now you're sick with ugly things
You're sick and don't know why
The drink this cruel world gave you
Left you sitting in its lies
They will not tell you that it's them
The world that fills your glass
Instead they'll place their hands
Over your eyes to make it last
They wrapped their arms around you
To bring you to the feast
They sat you down so nicely
And pushed in all the seats
They tricked you since your life began
And gave you so much fear
They hope you'll learn to live by it
To guard it all your years
So here you are so small, my dear
So tired, so afraid
I know you're sick with poison
So worn from all the pain
But try to listen with all your being
Try to breathe and try to see
I know the air's polluted
But if not for you -- for me
There's so much more beyond the world
There's so much more than this
They're always changing, always lying
They only want your bliss
I beg you not to let them have
What you could always be
How to love, the world knows not
Please, look up for once and see
They told you it's impossible
Because they're scared of what it'd do
The world does not know what they are
So their poison is in you
Please gag yourself and spit it out
Please take this glass of good
I know that it's more comfy there
But here you're understood
I don't want you to die this way
Stop listening to their words
Don't let them act so sweet to you
Because their promises are unsure
Watch your lips turn deeper black
Your eyes, they cannot see
I'll beg you to push out your chair
To stop sitting at the feast
Let me show you what love is
It's nothing that they say
It's not time or accomplishments
It's neither white nor gray
Love, they say, is happiness
Love is something great
Then next they'll claim it hurts you bad
That love is just a state
The world will mold the words
They'll sculpt the precious ones
Into something that makes you fear
Because for them, it wasn't enough
They never understood the good
Because they never knew to tell
They heard it from an echo
So they tried to build a well
The well was meant to give them things
To give them happiness
But this thing comes from love, my dear
And love they never had
To imitate the echo
They added something else
They refused to take the truth
So they fed it to themselves
Now the well pours rich and sweet
The poison, black and thin
The world is hungry for it now
It's stained in all their lips
Please don't take another sip
Please don't take a bite
They don't know what they're doing
But darling, you must fight