Can't cut you out of my skin Buried so deep and coursing through my veins The pain will always remain A burden I'll take to an early grave Caged for all eternity And damned from the beginning Force fed a paradigm to which I will never align It makes me sick Tainted history Unable to erase Stained identity So ingrained within me Burn down everything to the ground I can barely breathe now Someone set me free Trying harder not to break down With everything I am, now Fighting for a way out Of this misery It's just so hard to believe I carry the weight of the way I was raised Plagued by agony and bound by the chains of my family name A test of faith I'll no longer turn the other cheek At night I pray upon my knees Will the shame always stay? Rip the past from my memory Can I turn and face who I've always been? If there is a God, is he listening? 'Cause you'd test the patience of a saint Tainted history Unable to erase Stained identity So ingrained within me Burn down everything to the ground I can barely breathe now Someone set me free Trying harder not to break down With everything I am now Fighting for a way out Of this misery It's just so hard to believe You'd test the patience of a saint You'll make a martyr out of me