on the nightshade purple, spiders having twisted conversations where’s my mind gone tonight i’m tired from fighting this desire and no one seems to care either way anyways so climb in through the attic where the moonlight babies sing and alice lets me put her capsules in you will walk to me you will say to me i love you nancy drownin’ romancy burning sacrements lovely punishments i love you nancy bleenin’ romancy tipie toeing where’s she going? do you know him? no you wouldn’t dare! i’ve made my mind up i’m tired of faking what i know to keep all the ones who’ve hurt me safe! so you will walk to me you will say to me i love you nancy drownin’ romancy buring sacrements lovely punishments i love you nancy bleenin’ romancy above behind inside don’t turn around i know you’ll be mine alone someday i can’t pretend that you wont feel a thing but i’ll let you scream and they will hear you no one hears me! you will walk to me you will say to me i love you nancy drownin’ romancy burning sacrements lovely punishments i love you nancy bleenin’ romancy

think throwing my knife away is gonna save the day and make it better? the fuck did you throw it to? they’re my friends not hers you better go and get her! you think your safe, think your kind, think your out of my mind like i’m not in here contemplating all the things that you and me are gonna do i’m gonna fight for you like i’m gonna save you from this fucked up weather make it better for you, i know it’s hard for you, all stuck inside this cell with just me, with nothing fun to do i’ll share with you my pens, share you my friends, share with you all my waking moments cause i know tense when i see it, know it’s cause of me yeah! in the end you’re my only friend who knows me, guess that’s why you hate me… always tryna get the nurse to come and get me, try sedate me in my mind we’re playing all the time why don’t you come and see me? only in my mind i’m playing iny miny miny miny moe catch a roommate by her toe and then i’ll cut her up stop crying baby you know i’m just playing, know i like it rough? it’s not like you to scream so loud, why you fucking hit me now? i’m crying, it’s not like you to test me when i am out of my mind! never trust a girl who’s been here before her names on the floor, her prints on the door oh lacey how i did try to warn her braiding up her hair in the dungeon corner never trust a girl who’s been here before blood on the floor, name on the door oh lacey i did try to warn her ripping out her hair in the dungeon corner nurse abi please help me my roommates crawling on the ceiling! i couldn’t tell you how i know, i guess it’s just a feeling shut up bitch i’m right in front of you i know you’re lying! two-faced little girls don’t last long in my presence got a present for you right at home my home is just as dusty as yours! it’s the same dust as yours we live together why you upset? like you don’t know this already we go get ready together, we go and pluck all feathers from all these crows that surround us guess that the reaper has found us… maybe i gotta get more medication for this temper.. maybe you gotta stop lying before i try attempt ta fix this situation myself, i know you'd wanna avoid that gotta commit to the violence, i know that you'd be annoyed at me tryna cut out my problems with all my knives cause i rob ‘em you got such a funny way of crying about all your problems but you don’t fix ‘em like i do, now lets see who you cry to when your problem become mine because i am who you lie too! never trust a girl who’s been here before her names on the floor, her prints on the door oh lacey how i did try to warn her braiding up her hair in the dungeon corner never trust a girl who’s been here before blood on the floor, name on the door oh lacey i did try to warn her ripping out her hair in the dungeon corner

nancy what have you become i shot out your heart so you’d leave me alone you’re buried alone oh i should know you were the only thing i ever wanted now he is trapped he is mine he is haunted nancy what have you become so many times i have killed you and still not enough what can i do to get rid of you you were the only thing i ever wanted now he is trapped he is mine he is haunted

remember right you know that i’ll appear picking flowers from the bodies that i killed to ease your fears (here, those are for you) dug deeper in my mind to understand became hollow so there was space for you but you had other plans walk away become the girl that i was supposed to be i gave her up to see them choose you over me and don’t forget our pills, be twice the girl we would have been alone i should have known how was i supposed to see your sickness was killing me how was i supposed to know my love was killing you x2 still lying in this cell, your carvings on the wall still hope you’ll visit me, but you don’t want to fall down this rabbit hole again, it hurts to be here yes i know so don’t remember how i fell for you a hundred years ago stay away become the girl that i was supposed to be i gave her up to see them love you and not me and don’t forget our pills, take anything that helps you don’t you see, you’re more special than me how was i supposed to see your sickness was killing me how was i supposed to know my love was killing you x2

i am not the one who’s gonna call it quits never liked that, never liked you one bit got the butterfly knife in the background never be found in the blacks of his eyes now quit it! don’t fear love, i don’t wanna hurt you these feelings are not here to harm or pervert you heard that one before from the from the liars chair i got scars and i know you know who put them there get us both into trouble and i wont forgive i was born to protect us from the things they did don’t despair, loves round the corner you can’t make it stop i just came here to warn ya i cant make this any clearer i don’t him anywhere near ya! don’t fear love, i don’t wanna hurt you these feelings are not here to harm harm harm harm i cant make this any clearer we cant love her we should fear her! don’t despair, loves round the corner you can’t make it stop i just came here for ya you know the thought is enticing me it’s just human nature so why are u fighting me? i know you’re ashamed of me, wont let me out again but you’re the same as me, there is no doubt my friend you cannot scare me off, until i go away you know that i’ll be back again another day you can pretend that i’m not a part of you or you can let me take over the heart with you don’t say i’m the lie if i’m not the girl i thought, who am i? i can’t be making decisions for all of us we all feel different ‘bout memories that follow us! don’t say you’re the good one you tell us when we feel good we should run? i’m just protecting the ones who don’t want this think you’re more important than us? then fuck this! i cant make this any clearer i don’t him anywhere near ya! don’t fear love, i don’t wanna hurt you these feelings are not here to harm or pervert you i cant make this any clearer we cant love her we should fear her! don’t despair, loves round the corner you can’t make it stop i just came here to warn ya

the doors of this hospital swing both ways yes the modern state hospital is no longer the prison asylum of yesterday it’s a city where the sick can become well again my pain is constant and sharp and i do not hope for a better world for anyone in fact, i want my pain to be inflicted on others i want no one to escape but even after admitting this there is no catharsis my punishment continues to allude me and i gain no deeper knowledge of myself no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling this confession has meant nothing

the rain turned violent it never did stop so i waited till i lost the plot another excuse for my enemies to pretend to me all this was all my fault they said i was a clown and the jokes on me the attic was my stage and the world could see so naturally i sharpened my teeth and smiled said i’m what becomes of a doomville child! bang bang shhh they’ll never hear a thing cause they don’t pay mind when the harlequin sings bang bang shhh they’ll never see a thing cause they don’t look close when the harlequin sings hopeful friends think i’m insane yeah misery in novacania x2 shhh they’ll never hear a thing cause the wait of the world is a mutual thing the clouds would burst to a million screams but the hopeless laugh at the scene they’re calling me a clown and the jokes on me but i’ll show them you just wait and see the residents of doomsville save my seat cause the violence plays like a comedy and i’m laughing like- bang bang shhh they’ll never hear a thing cause they don’t pay mind when the harlequin sings bang bang shhh they’ll never see a thing cause they don’t look close when the harlequin sings hopeful friends think i’m insane yeah misery in novacania x2 play pretend until the end hold tight stay strong x8 bang bang shhh they’ll never hear a thing cause they don’t pay mind when the harlequin sings bang bang shhh they’ll never see a thing cause they don’t look close when the harlequin sings hopeful friends think i’m insane yeah misery in novacania x2

scream like the doctors yo what the fuck is wrong with her? wicked eyes lost, rolling, white, glossed cross fire nightmare, in the light fair, i just wanna play nice, stupid, wheres the knife? threw it come on fight fair! skulls on the fire yo i can see inside ya you’re not very pretty and the docs cant find ya im rancid what that girl did in the cross fire nightmares selling night terrors wrapped in barbed wire i’m not okay no what the fuck you say to put sister of mine to sleep? in my mind i’ve made peace but every little peace of her mind it still rests in me (i can see out my eyes are free oh my) defensive, paranoid pensive, might avoid you eye sore, what’s that frown? let me turn it upside down get off me! sick of this! all these faces devilish inside my scary dreams why’d you have to be so mean?

i’m gonna die here! no one in this house can make believe like i do i’m tryna make it work but with these scratches all i do is batshit, black out shit cause no one hears me! i waited for him all those years now i pretend he’s alway here never been the type to pray then rages in the play pen my fantasies unhinged with time brain is on rewind it gets so hard just to breath, can’t get no release from this premonition in my mind they’ll bury me before my time all these ghosts in novacania no ones screaming lovesick quite like me tickin’ over till last december i’ll waste away in attica when i pretend you’re here hear these ghosts in novacania no ones felt the love since ‘016 just a spark but i’ll never surrender this hopes the only thing thats left when i pretend you’re here the night grew cold just in time for me to get here everyone i chased left here in the frost innocence lost to the storm never be warm in the frost i can’t make it out alive so i turned myself into a demon he said that was my future but i said i didn’t believed him i’m cut up, lonely hearts club got no sympathy, i’m fucked up never be caught in the arms of a lover now i can barely cover this up anymore i’m a criminal and they be keeping score suffocating when i sing i can’t bring myself to the light i can’t sing when it don’t feel right i can’t fight this rage within hold it back, all the violence its never worth the sirens they’ll never let us out again if you say whats inside us recover me! i don’t wanna die here never had a chance, cause theres no one to confide in i don’t wanna peek outside if it don’t compare to the visions that i use when we both get scared all these ghosts in novacania no ones screaming lovesick quite like me tickin over till last december i’ll waste away in attica when i pretend you’re here hear the ghosts in novacania no ones felt the love since ‘016 just a spark but i’ll never surrender this hopes the only thing thats left when i pretend you’re here

down by the sea, they’re calling for me but i’m not done with you down by the stream, they’re calling for me but i’m not me if i leave you down in the dark, you cradle my heart and wash it with the leaves down in the light, where nancy rots in white he throws it down and leaves me you will walk to me you will say to me i love you nancy bleeding romancy you were the only thing i ever wanted now he is trapped, he is mine, he is haunted x2 never trust a girl who’s been here before her names on the floor, her prints on the door never trust a girl who’s been here before all my friends think insane yeah mysery in novocania x2 how was i supposed to see your love sickness was killing me? now he is trapped he is mine he is haunted all my friends in novacania no ones screaming lovesick quite like me ticking over till last december i’ll waste away in attica when i pretend you’re- oh the world is ending bombs are falling round me