[Introduction]
Beat it! Bash it out! I’m telling you, what more do you desire
Have you not seen enough? Stop looking at me in that way.
Have you heard nothing? Don’t you understand?
How must I say it so you might understand?
Listen you bitch:
I’m not a well-mannered person, I’m not a nice person, I’m a dirty beast, a gas bottle in a chimney.
And I will end up beating your face if you come to close
Just like the others
But you don’t know what you are saying
I tried to change, it never worked
I will never change
And even now there is no second chance
There are no clean slates
Don’t act like you don’t see it have you not noticed?
It’s plastered all over on every newspaper
On the screen where people can see it
It is even written in bold letters in the sides of buildings
When good people like you sleep
It’s marked in red
You were born like that, you live like that, and you thrash it
Your naked face’s reflection is the only one that can disgust you
Your guilt and despair are your only witness
Don’t believe me, yet you don’t want me to continue
Because it will prevent you from sleeping
And even worst yet it will make you want to spit on my face
So before I once again transform myself, start running
Run from me as if I was cholera
[Chorus]
I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody.
But I am a criminal simply that
I’ve done things I regret
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million reasons
For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me
And if one day you come for me, I will not resist
I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste
But before that happens I want you to know that I understand
I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt
And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for
And what if it takes me a lifetime
I’m sorry ill lower my voice
Oh you disturb my mind, shit
And if you lose your mind if you break or shut your mouth
You look at your plate and give us 5 minutes of peace
By the time I finish, can you do that?
What bothers you that you walk around the world that would in that way?
Yeah it sucks! I understand dude
But you say you have a chance
You were raised well as it should, your strong, your consistent
You make people uncomfortable in restaurants
You sleep well; words don’t bother your ears
You are good French, you're beautiful, and you’re healthy
As a fashion magazine, like a model home
These things don’t happen to you, do they?
Do you not understand me?
Is the door to your closet no open enough?
You might be surprised
It will make you feel funny in the evenings when you think about the tings
You thought I had buried
In fact, they were there, always there, hidden under the carpet
They came out like a needle in your foot
Before disappearing
And when the knot in your throat stings like the smell of ammonia
It brings cold sweat, as your teeth shatter
But no, I am not calm! I am not calm! He doesn’t know what he is
He doesn’t know that its priceless. To be lousy, to be stupid, to be puppet
To be the land where good and evil collides. He does not know what it is!
[Chorus]
I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody
But I am a criminal simply that
I’ve done things I regret
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million reasons
For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me
And if one day you come for me, I will not resist
I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste
But before that happens I want you to know that I understand
I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt
And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for
And what if it takes me a lifetime
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And how can you want me if I myself don’t want me?
Why do you say you love me so that I hate myself?
Why are you here, why do you stay?
Not tonight, not tonight leave me alone please
I don’t want to go, I don’t want to come back in, I don’t want to sleep.
In fact I don’t want to talk tonight. Tonight I just want to scream
I want to open the gates, you know to let everything out
Like a virgin who lies screaming heavy words
With my teenage voice that hasn’t died.
I scream for fear of abandonment, and my frantic search for attention
Like a dog in need for attention
My desperate attempt to be a guy that I'm not and that I will never be
Scream at my lack of courage, my cruelty, my sickening politeness
My stupid optimism, my dangerous overdoing of things
My thoughts, my tantrums. Can my guilt, my sexuality and my twisted fantasies
Scream out my fear of others, my petty deviousness
My regrets, my mistakes, my neuroses. My obsessions, my great obsessions
My fear of pain, loss, suicide, depression
[Chorus]
I have not robbed anybody, stood up anybody
But I am a criminal simply that
I’ve done things I regret
Enough to think about it all the time
I could give you a million reasons
For what takes me, breaks my knees and I ridicules me
And if one day you come for me, I will not resist
I will place my hands on my head and follow without haste
But before that happens I want you to know that I understand
I spend endless nights full of insomnia and guilt
And I will find an apprentice worth repenting for
And what if it takes me a lifetime