The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold

So I arrived, naked and cold

A welcomed change from the abeyance of a ghost town catacomb

No need for counsel, I appreciate the time I’m not alone

(Why don’t you get my lawyer on the phone?)

There were days these child eyes

Would overlook the ugliness and fantasize

I found my heart for the first time and I awakened in me

I left myself to navigate… and oh I felt control

(It seems these sheep have quite an appetite)

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage,

As we perform here upon the stage?

As the boy became a man

In came a calm sophistication I can hardly understand

So lost in ego, didn’t notice when the time had slipped away

(Yeah, everybody’s got a sob story)

Jesus Christ was born to die

Leave it to man to levitate his own to idolize

We’re simply sociopaths with no communication baby

I see your angle but we differ from our points of view

(So tell me, what’s your cross to bear?)

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage,

As we perform here upon the stage?

Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

I believe in answers, just not today

Hope my wheels don’t abandon me now,

Seeing that I’m out here alone

I’m running out of fight

And the wind speaks a comforting voice,

Guiding me to her arms

Mother, I’m alright

It took the birth of sin to snake-rattle the mind

Before a blow to the head by the gavel of time

To wake up

Won’t you wake up?

When did the walking apes decide that nuclear war

Was the only solution for them keeping the score?

Just wake up

Can’t you wake up?

(You do know this is just a simulation, don’t you?)

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage,

As we perform here upon the stage?

Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

I believe in answers, just not today