Spirits above me cry
Rainbows in the sky
Never thought I was broken
Until I had awoken
Until I had awoken, yeah

(I stoke the fire...)

My cage was built here deep in my mind
The horror turned corruption and I went blind
Poisoning my soul, but I don't like the taste
So I'm reaching for the memories I know that they erased
And now every single morning I'm waking to the screams
They sound like mine when I happen to dream
The stress it wears me, I don't know if I'm alive
But that's a lie cause my smile survives
All these ponies I've killed, bent to my will
I close my eyes, I no longer feel
I grind the gears, yeah all of me is fake
Don't care how they die just who to take
These helpless creatures, the power to break
Back them into corners and manipulate
I change my ways like the change in tide
Say hello to the kindness I swear I hide
Give me just enough compassion to blur the line
And I'll take your love, it should be mine
All the guilt it kills me and I shouldn't be alive
I never wanted this, just to survive

Spirits above me cry
Rainbows in the sky
Never thought that I was broken
Until I had awoken
Until I had awoken, yeah

(I stoke the fire...)

The memories are there and at once cohere
There were sunny days with my best friend near
So much compassion, forgotten his face
Everything was just buried, It was never erased
When I was really little they'd defeat me daily
Till I got a little bigger then they ran like babies
And the stress was crippling, I just wanted to hide
But that's a lie cause my smile survived
Dismissed by the world as a fantasy
X'ed out my cutie mark publicly
Family sent me to an academy
But in it's wretched bowels, this factory
Conditioned nightly to a crooked song
Till I knew no right, I knew no wrong
Now I've seen more pain than you could know
All these tears crack the dam in my soul
I'm flooded with desire but where could I go
All these thoughts they can never know
If the guilt doesn't kill me, a machine will do
I am different, I'm not like you

Spirits above me cry
Rainbows in the sky
Never thought that I was broken
Until I had awoken
Until I had awoken, yeah