Tongue-splitter-Protest The Hero

[ti:Tongue-splitter] [ar:Protest The Hero] [al:Scurrilous] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.21]Tongue-splitter - Protest The Hero [00:01.34]Written by：Moe Carlson/Luke Hoskin/Timothy Millar/Arif Mirabdolbaghi/James Rody Walker [00:04.09] [00:30.01]A psychotherapist once claimed I had acute neurosis [00:33.02]I only said a couple words and he made his diagnosis [00:36.33]He said I could say whatever I want because I never chose this [00:39.27]So I spat and grinned and I looked at him [00:41.02]And I blew him a Glasgow kiss look out now [00:42.76]I close just one eye and let a part of me die [00:47.02] [00:48.94]Never too sure if it's the truth or a lie [00:53.16] [01:08.60]I'm not asking for your pity woe is me sarcastically [01:13.41] [01:15.05]I'm not losing sleep pathetically while waxing so poetically [01:19.75] [01:21.55]But I'm waning waning alphabetically [01:24.44] [01:26.40]As I keep dropping bombs dropping bombs [01:29.34] [01:30.03]Dropping bombs apologetically [01:32.31] [01:34.37]It was a wicked whimpering winter plague night [01:38.35] [01:39.23]When my tongue grew wings and took to flight [01:44.81] [01:46.67]The thought had never crossed my mind before that moment [01:51.18] [01:52.07]Is the truth so bent it can't be broken [01:57.52] [01:58.96]Jealousy got the best of me and had a conference with the rest of me [02:01.87]It said if this is all that's left for me then there's [02:03.79]So little room for regret [02:05.06]And that little voice hey little voice hey [02:06.98]Little voice inside my head said [02:08.29]If you don't regret nothing then you might as well be dead [02:11.20] [02:14.11]As well be dead [02:15.20] [02:24.02]As well be dead [02:25.58] [02:37.52]So I apologize [02:39.12] [02:43.89]Mostly to the four or five guys [02:46.64] [02:47.19]Who stand behind me on the stage every night [02:49.61] [02:50.47]As the mic starts to whisper [02:52.64] [02:53.62]And the words start to blister in my mouth that I know aren't right [03:00.86] [03:03.17]I gotta get back to who I was before my last ten years on autopilot [03:12.84] [03:16.04]It's the mask that quite often starts to eat into your face [03:21.12] [03:21.96]So wear it lightly like a cap that can quickly be replaced [03:28.04]I gotta get back to who I was before my last ten years on autopilot [03:38.32] [03:41.95]So tell me again how my life should have been [03:46.75] [03:47.64]Before I was spineless before I gave in [03:53.31] [03:54.72]'Cause everybody thinks it's timeless well time's running out [04:00.08]One thing I'll never regret is I never shed my face